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"Time is suspended, space is distorted, light on black skin is a metaphor, and black music, cut into sounds of salvation, carries the narrative."
aperture magazine
"I wanted my identity as a maker of photographs to run up against my identity as a mother-to-be."
talks & interviews
"I used the camera as an investigation into my way of looking, as opposed to fulfilling these visions of things to which I had previously been introduced."
aperture magazine
"It’s always the starting point for me, the images."
aperture magazine
In two recent films, Kahlil Joseph and Arthur Jafa consider the poetics of African American life.
Through uncanny vintage photographs, Laura Larson tells a story of love and attachment.
In photographs and a new film, RaMell Ross offers a poetic vision of Southern life.
At Ted Partin’s studio, Aperture Connect Members take a peek behind the curtain.
Highlights from the Magnum Square Print Sale
The acclaimed director reveals the photographs that inspired her films.
How can photography transform representations of non-binary and transgender bodies?
From a vivacious studio photographer, the music and style of 1960s West Africa.
Rediscovering the surrealist artist’s “Unconcerned Photographs.”
Mark Steinmetz’s project on the Atlanta Airport portrays the American South in all its complexity and contradiction.
