Editorial Aperture’s Must-Read Features of 2025 Featured Diane Arbus’s darkroom, the legacy of David Lynch, photography’s outsized influence on painting, and a kaleidoscopic portrait of Seoul—here are this year’s highlights in photography and ideas. Advertisement Portfolio Prize Looking Back at Twenty Years of the Aperture Portfolio Prize Interviews Zen and the Art of Photography Interviews Tracing Africa’s Photographic History in Books The Latest CategoriesCategoriesSelect Category Aperture News Essays Featured From the Archive From the Editors Interviews Introducing PhotoBook Awards Photobooks Portfolio Prize Portfolios Remembrances Reviews Summer Open Portfolios The Photographer Who Sees with Her Fingertips Aspen Mays makes photographs without a camera and in total darkness, conjuring images both intimate and otherworldly. Photobooks A Photographer’s Pyramid Scheme Begins to Pay Off Ian James has spent nearly a decade documenting the pyramids of North America, exploring how the once-sacred architecture has transformed into a late-capitalist virtue. Remembrances Martin Parr Led a Global Movement for Photography As both an acclaimed photographer and an impassioned advocate for the medium, Parr’s influence on the field has been immeasurable. Featured 35 Photobooks Perfect for Holiday Gifting Legendary artists. Must-read essay books. Exclusive editions. Here is the ultimate guide to the best photobooks to give this holiday season. Featured Sara Cwynar on Six Things That Inspire Her The photographer shares a few of her favorite things, from figure skating to Aby Warburg’s atlas of antiquity. Load More Get Aperture Magazine 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. $24.95 11Add to cart Advertisement Featured View All Aperture’s Must-Read Features of 2025 35 Photobooks Perfect for Holiday Gifting Sara Cwynar on Six Things That Inspire Her 14 Photographers on Youth as a State of Mind Photobooks View All A Photographer’s Pyramid Scheme Begins to Pay Off Is Photography Yorgos Lanthimos’s True Calling? Why Does the Italian Polymath Bruno Munari Still Spark Joy? Is the Age of Oversized Photobooks Over? Advertisement Interviews View All Tracing Africa’s Photographic History in Books Zen and the Art of Photography Daniel Arnold’s New Pleasure? Missing the Shot. What Is Gen Z’s Influence on Photography? From the Archive View All Fred Lonidier’s Unrepentant Focus on Workers’ Rights How Alex Webb Sees in Color Summertime in America’s Backyard For Bertien van Manen, Photography Was All About the Heart