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A Young Photographer’s Poetic View of Everyday Life in Ghana

In his landscapes and portraits, Kay Kwabia translates city scenes in and around Accra into atmospheric images.

The Women Behind Accra’s Storied Makola Market

You can find just about anything at this vital market in Ghana. Misper Apawu’s new portraits highlight the traders who run the show.

Carlos Idun-Tawiah’s Retro-Inspired Vision of Ghanaian Youth

Incorporating his experience with fashion photography, Idun-Tawiah’s images combine stylized flair with the intimacy of personal pictures.

How Gina Osterloh’s Photographs Flirt with the Limits of Recognition

In her self-portraits and staged images, the Filipino American artist explores the borderlands of identity.

An Asian American Family’s Public History and Private Rituals

In his photographs, Jarod Lew asks his family to reenact scenes from everyday life, invoking stories that wrestle with the tensions between control and care.

An Artist’s Collages about Memory and Migration

Priya Suresh Kambli works with pictures of her family in India and the US, making connections between past and present.

A Celebratory Chronicle of Black College Life

The photographer Adraint Bereal captures the agony and ecstasy of what it is to be a Black college student in the United States.

James Welling Recasts the Ancient World 

In two recent series, the photographer references fragments of antiquity, pulling the past into the present.
Stephanie Syjuco, Still Life Construct, 2022

Stephanie Syjuco Confronts the Power of the Archive

Syjuco’s rigorous photographs show how interrogating institutional collections can be a potent tool in decolonizing American history.

The Strange and Beautiful World of Deborah Turbeville’s Photo-Novella

The renowned fashion photographer’s previously unseen experimental collages tell the story of a fictional designer who disappears at the height of her career.

An Artist’s Clever Reuse of the Fashion Image

In his collaborative multimedia project “The Repros,” Jojo Gronostay poses a timely critique of clothing brands, global trade, and neocolonialism.

In Tavares Strachan’s Collages, Double Meanings and Colliding Histories

Strachan speaks of his work in terms of a West African street festival where dance, poetry, music, and the performing arts are jumbled together in an exuberant whole.

Hank Willis Thomas’s Tribute to the Photographers Who Inspire His Vision

In this series of collages, Thomas draws on stories from Aperture in the 2010s, a decade during which looking back was as vital as looking forward.

Saul Leiter’s Ravishing Color Photographs of New York

These previously unpublished selections of 35mm slides confirm and extend the stubborn singularity of Leiter’s color language.

Mark Steinmetz Portrays the Gestures of Love between Mother and Daughter

In stirring portraits of his family, Steinmetz recalls the enduring influence of a 1980s issue of Aperture< about mother-daughter relationships.

Hannah Whitaker’s Images About Technology and Anxiety at the Turn of the Millennium

In a series of photographs that conceal or duplicate human forms, Whitaker imagines how the digital revolution has fragmented everyday experience and meaning.

Collapsing Time in the Swedish Countryside

For the photographer Maja Daniels, history is an uneasy conglomerate of fiction and testimony.

Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.’s Uncanny Inner Worlds

The photographer’s compelling and confounding images riff on the idea of the domestic realm as a private theater of Black humanity.
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Aperture No. 259

Guest edited by Tanisha C. Ford, Liberated Threads explores style and fashion as a language of Black resistance, refusal, and joy. This issue features image-makers who remix and reimagine twentieth-century “soul style,” creating a contemporary dialogue between photographers, filmmakers, and stylists from around the world.

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