Thirty-five years after the publication of her iconic photobook, Nan Goldin reflects on creating an indelible visual record of her life.
David Benjamin Sherry’s new photobook of mesmerizing, analog photograms, melds queer history, abstraction, and darkroom magic.
After the social uprisings of 2020, museums from New Orleans to Toronto consider how collections and exhibitions might reframe art history—and better represent a changed cultural landscape.
How Arlene Dávila, Elizabeth Ferrer, and E. Carmen Ramos are working to challenge mainstream art history by inserting Latinx artists into white spaces.
Is it possible to retain an artistic vision—and ethical integrity—while making images for news media and fashion brands? Four photographers speak about responsibility, community, and the push for structural change.
Pilar Tompkins Rivas, guest editor of Aperture’s Winter 2021 issue, on the images that collectively chart the history and future of Latinx culture.
Raised in Africa and Europe, Theo Eshetu makes kaleidoscopic films that reflect the dilemmas of biography and belonging.
In imagery that fuses Black artifacts, rituals, and fantasies, three artists offer blueprints for a jubilant new universe.
In her images of keenly observed gestures and details, Kawauchi reveals the mysterious and beautiful realm at the edge of the everyday world.
Ross has been called one of the greatest portrait photographers in the history of the medium. As a long-overdue retrospective opens in Europe, a new generation will witness her radical belief in the individual.
In three timely new books, David Levi Strauss considers the profound effects that photography, terror, and divisive politics have had on the twenty-first-century imagination.
In the weeks after 9/11, Steve Pyke photographed posters of the missing from the Twin Towers. Published for the first time twenty years later, they remain instant memorials to an incalculable loss.
Amid a pandemic and political crises, three festivals rethink their format—and chart a new path for arts communities in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal.
Since the 1980s, the photographer has searched for the foundations of culture—and discovered gender codes in high art and kitsch.
From Nepal to Sri Lanka, artists and curators are joining forces to reimagine the region’s cultural histories.
A new publication of Gedney’s work shows why his lyrical images deserve a closer look.
Drawing inspiration from history, legend, and speculative fiction, artists grapple with the legacy of slavery and colonial empire—and conjure images of the “Black fantastic.”
Gupta has spent his career photographing queer subjects in India—and inspired a new generation to insist on making confident, unflinching work.
Spring 2023, “We Make Pictures in Order to Live”
