Calls for Entry
Mark McKnight, Ballerino, 2018
Deadline: 7 January 2022
Now Open: 2022 Aperture Portfolio Prize
The Portfolio Prize is an annual international competition to discover, exhibit, and publish new talents in photography.
The Aperture Portfolio Prize
The Aperture Portfolio Prize highlights artists whose work deserves greater recognition.
The Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards
The Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards celebrates the book’s contribution to the evolving narrative of photography.
Aperture Summer Open
The Aperture Summer Open is an annual open-submission exhibition featuring a wide variety of work by photographers and lens-based artists…
Recent Announcements
PhotoBook Awards
Announcing the Winners of the 2021 PhotoBook Awards
Celebrating the evolving narrative of the photobook, Aperture and Paris Photo present this year’s winning titles.
PhotoBook Awards
Announcing the 2021 PhotoBook Awards Shortlist
Celebrating the evolving narrative of the photobook, see the 35 shortlisted titles for this year’s Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards.
Portfolio Prize
Donavon Smallwood’s Photographs Envision Black Tranquility in Central Park
Winner of the 2021 Aperture Portfolio Prize, Smallwood was inspired by the history of Seneca Village, a nineteenth-century Black community in New York.
Portfolio Prize
2021 Aperture Portfolio Prize Runner-Up: William Camargo
Photographing in Anaheim, California, William Camargo addresses issues of gentrification and the city’s history of systemic erasure of Chicanx and Latinx narratives.
Portfolio Prize
2021 Aperture Portfolio Prize Runner-Up: Chance DeVille
Working collaboratively with their mother, Chance DeVille creates a photographic examination of the long-lasting effects of domestic abuse and trauma.
Portfolio Prize
2021 Aperture Portfolio Prize Runner-Up: Jarod Lew
After a shocking family discovery, Jarod Lew examines the Asian American experience and the long history of survival and erasure in displacement.
