Home to a gallery and thousands of books, the Dikan Center is the latest in a growing number of creative hubs across Ghana.
During World War II, Miyatake made surreptitious photographs of Japanese Americans incarcerated by the US government. He saw little need to glorify, humanize, or even individualize the prisoners—because he was one of them.
Asian American photographers have always found inventive ways to engage with interior spaces, often against the demands of public visibility.
Paul Kodjo’s edgy photographs of nightlife and youth culture in Ivory Coast resisted cultural norms of the 1970s. They almost disappeared forever.
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.
How the Belgian artist models his work on photographs and film stills to evoke history and trigger memories.
Before he died in the early 1990s, the Bronx-born artist used family pictures throughout his singular work in photography, drawing, and painting.
In his collaborations with influential literary figures and performers, Hosoe created surreal scenes that invoke the fantastic.
The Colombian artist deployed a practice of wit, charm, humor, and exaggeration in his photography, uncovering the “truths” beneath cultural conventions.
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.
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.
In her final book, Malcolm reflects on her career-long preoccupation with photography—and considers memory as both muse and captor.
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.
As artists experiment with this fast-evolving technology, they uncover creative opportunity, absurdity, and bias.
Aside from portraits capturing her own nervy glamour, how might we consider the iconic writer through photography?
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?
In images made before the Russian invasion in 2022, three Ukrainian photographers preserve social memory—and witness a nation striving to define its sovereignty.
A remarkable exhibition by the two artists charts a visionary path through the landscapes of the South.
Summer 2023, “Being & Becoming: Asian in America”
