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These previously unpublished selections of 35mm slides confirm and extend the stubborn singularity of Leiter’s color language.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

Lora Webb Nichols’s Mysterious Images of the American West

In the early twentieth century, Nichols made dreamlike photographs of the frontier that feel both intimate and faraway.
Emila Medková, Untitled, Shadowplays, 1949

The Subversive Dream Logic of Emila Medková’s Photographs

The Soviet-era Czech Surrealist responded to totalitarian rule with an austere but rebellious sense of humor.

Heinkuhn Oh’s Vivacious Portrait of Seoul in the 1990s

In his black-and-white photographs, Oh creates a record of the denizens of Itaewon, a district known for glamorous outsiders of all kinds.

Myriam Boulos’s Visceral Images of Lebanon at a Time of Revolution

In her photographs about youth, queerness, and protest, Boulos shows that desire is a form of power.

How a Japanese Card Game Inspired Will Matsuda’s Pictures of the Pacific Northwest

Recalling his family history, the Oregon-based photographer imagines the complexity—and possibility—of American landscapes.

How a Hmong Photographer Creates a Striking Narrative about Laos

With floral imagery and splintered memories, Pao Houa Her imbues her photographs with desire for the homeland.
Steven Molina Contreras, Nuestro Corazón (Our heart), United States, 2020

A Young Photographer’s Intimate Chronicle of Family in El Salvador and the United States

Steven Molina Contreras’s tender portraits trace a multigenerational story of immigration, sacrifice, and belonging.
Genesis Báez, The Sound of a Circle, 2018

Genesis Báez’s Fleeting Visions of the Puerto Rican Diaspora

In her photography, Báez explores the complexity of care, touch, and belonging among Puerto Rican women in the United States and beyond.

Joiri Minaya Unravels the Fantasy of Tourism

In the midst of a global climate emergency, the artist’s timely photographic collages reconsider gender and identity in the Dominican Republic.

Awol Erizku’s Surreal Visions of Africa and Its Diaspora

Engaging traditions of Dadaism and Surrealism, the photographer visualizes contemporary Black creative life.

The Artist Creating Ethereal Photograms from the River Thames

Based on encounters with light and small objects gathered from the river, Anne Hardy makes her own radiant universe.
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Aperture Magazine No. 261, “The Craft Issue” Cover
Aperture Magazine

Aperture No. 261

Aperture’s issue on craft features photographers who make pictures the slow way—building camera obscuras, creating photograms, and laboring in traditional darkrooms to make handmade, unrepeatable forms.

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