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The Fragility of Existence

With uncompromising directness, Margaret Courtney-Clarke photographs the lives and landscapes of Namibia.

Framing Justice

How do photographs tell the story of citizenship in the United States?

Peter Hujar's Italian Reverie

From the underground art star, a delicate picture of youth.

The Honesty of Petra Collins

The young photographer is celebrated for her raw and real depictions of femininity. But can images ever be trusted?

Take the J Train

In Andre D. Wagner’s new photobook, an intimate chronicle of black life on New York City’s subways.

Jamie Hawkesworth Doesn’t Believe in Boundaries

A rising photography star bridges the divide between art and fashion.

Walter Pfeiffer, Untitled, 2001

The Cult of Walter Pfeiffer

Delighting in male beauty and gender play, a prolific Swiss photographer reinvented the rules of attraction.

The Queen Unleashed

Lyle Ashton Harris’s archive offers a glimpse of a queer, black ’90s.

At FotoFocus, the Radical Notion That Women Are People

Are we living in a state of emergency feminism?

A Different Kind of Protest

How did Michael Schmidt’s independent workshop change postwar German photography?

You Can Never Be Too Rich

Americans were supposed to break free of the class system. But, in Lauren Greenfield’s chronicle of American wealth, the desire for status is insatiable.

The Unsung Hero of South African Photography

In searing and poetic images, Andrew Tshabangu chronicles Johannesburg in the age of democracy.

Raw Land

How are artists rethinking documentary in North Africa?

In Praise of the Absurd

In Panama City, five photographic projects tackle the contradictions of urban life.

Through the Lens

In Bamako, a group of young photographers engage a changing city.

Screen Legends

South Africa’s new media artists are transforming the digital world.

At a British Photography Biennial, Glimmers of Optimism

The FORMAT Festival has put Derby on the U.K.’s cultural map. But can it survive Brexit?

Aerospace Folktales

From Allan Sekula, dreams and illusions of the postwar American economy.
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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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