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The Possibility of Home

Asian American photographers have always found inventive ways to engage with interior spaces, often against the demands of public visibility.

The Quest to Protect the Father of Ivorian Photography

Paul Kodjo’s edgy photographs of nightlife and youth culture in Ivory Coast resisted cultural norms of the 1970s. They almost disappeared forever.

How Do Asian American Photographers Envision New Possibilities for the Future?

Stephanie Hueon Tung, guest editor of Aperture‘s summer 2023 issue, on the artists confronting the tensions between past and present—and what it means to be Asian in America.

The Photographic Traces of Luc Tuymans’s Ghostly Paintings

How the Belgian artist models his work on photographs and film stills to evoke history and trigger memories.

Will a Retrospective Revive Interest in Darrel Ellis’s Experimental Images?

Before he died in the early 1990s, the Bronx-born artist used family pictures throughout his singular work in photography, drawing, and painting.

Eikoh Hosoe’s Mythic Worlds

In his collaborations with influential literary figures and performers, Hosoe created surreal scenes that invoke the fantastic.
Color self-portrait of the artist against a light blue background

Juan Pablo Echeverri’s Subversive and Multifarious Self-Portraits

The Colombian artist deployed a practice of wit, charm, humor, and exaggeration in his photography, uncovering the “truths” beneath cultural conventions.

How Tommy Kha’s Mischievous Portraits Challenge the Idea of Belonging

The artist’s visual jokes, out-of-place expressions, and even a cutout of his own face mark his presence in the world—and tell a story about Asian American identity.

A Midcentury Portrait of Black Culture in Pittsburgh

For more than fifty years, Charles “Teenie” Harris created a vivid record of the city. Now, a major archival project stands to reveal the scope of his vision.

Janet Malcolm’s Life in Snapshots

In her final book, Malcolm reflects on her career-long preoccupation with photography—and considers memory as both muse and captor.

Nick Waplington’s Histories from Below

From Nottingham living rooms to New York dance floors and Los Angeles’s surf scene, the British photographer has created records of subcultures that brim with life.

How Will AI Transform Photography?

As artists experiment with this fast-evolving technology, they uncover creative opportunity, absurdity, and bias.

The Afterimage of Joan Didion

Aside from portraits capturing her own nervy glamour, how might we consider the iconic writer through photography?
Yevgenia Belorusets, Lucky Breaks, 2018

An Uncanny Chronicle of Ukraine, Before and After the War

What does “Lucky Breaks,” Yevgenia Belorusets’s foreboding book of fiction and documentary pictures, tell us about the cycles of history and myth in Ukraine?

The Photographers Who Showed the Whimsy and Eros of Ukraine before the War

In images made before the Russian invasion in 2022, three Ukrainian photographers preserve social memory—and witness a nation striving to define its sovereignty.
RaMell Ross, Sleepy Church, 2014

William Christenberry, RaMell Ross, and the American Crucible of Hale County, Alabama

A remarkable exhibition by the two artists charts a visionary path through the landscapes of the South.

Gordon Parks’s Strident Vision of Stokely Carmichael and the Black Power Movement

In the late 1960s, Parks chronicled the young activist organizing voters, speaking at rallies, and advocating for Black self-determination.

An Artist’s Photo Archive Tells a Story about Race and Labor

Qiana Mestrich’s vintage pictures of Black women at work—including her own mother—show the role women of color play in the workplace.
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Aperture No. 258

Aperture presents “Photography & Painting,” featuring artists from around the world who draw inspiration from both mediums in their work, illuminating how the dialogue between camera and canvas continues to unfold today in fascinating, unexpected ways.

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