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Aperture’s Must-Read Photography Features of 2023

From Juergen Teller and Mary Manning to the debates around AI’s influence on image-making, here are this year’s highlights in photography and ideas.

Alex Webb on Reimagining a Photobook, Twenty-Five Years Later

In a new edition of a long out-of-print volume, Webb draws from photographs across many locations. Here, he considers the act of photography as a form of dislocation in itself.

31 Photobooks for Everyone on Your Holiday Gift List

Legendary photographers. Thought-provoking essay books. Limited-edition photography gifts and book bundles. Here is the ultimate guide to the best photobooks to give this holiday season.

Announcing the Winners of the 2023 Creator Labs Photo Fund

Presented by Aperture and Google’s Creator Labs, the fund provides financial support to thirty photographers at formative moments in their careers. Here, meet the winners, recognized for their exceptional artistic visions.

Jade Thiraswas’s Sensitive Chronicle of Pride and Mourning in the American South

For the Thai American photographer, small beauties and unforgiving travesties are all part of what it truly means to live in Louisiana.

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Gregory Crewdson and Lauren Ambrose on the Making of an Iconic Photograph

Crewdson and Ambrose are among the Berkshires residents who are actively trying to save a local movie house. “This picture feels really fateful,” notes Crewdson. “It’s been waiting all these years for the right moment.”

Photographs That Show the “Fire and Thunder” of Contemporary Life

Meet the artists of the Image Equity Fellowship, a collaboration between Google, Aperture, For Freedoms, and FREE THE WORK.

A Visit to Kunié Sugiura’s New York Studio

In her Chinatown loft, Kunié Sugiura presses conventional boundaries of photography and painting.

9 Inspiring Photobooks by Contemporary Women Photographers

From Justine Kurland’s imagined runaways to Wendy Red Star’s feminist, Indigenous perspective, here are essential titles by today’s leading artists.

A Photographer’s Unsettling Experiments with “Cursed” Images

Patricia Voulgaris employs the visual language of the supernatural, tracing the tenuous line between belief and doubt.

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11 Essential Photobooks for Black History Month

From monographs by Ming Smith and Deana Lawson to compendiums about activism and fashion, here are must-read books that envision Black lives.

A Photographer’s Desire to Change How She Sees the World

Anabelle DeClement’s photographs consider how we interact with the people and places around us—and if we have the capacity to change.

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The Double Life of a French Armenian Photographer

In a psychologically-charged series, Rebecca Topakian reconstructs her dual identity from object-clues, collecting traces of herself in virtual and physical geographies.

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Aperture’s Best Photography Features of 2022

From Wolfgang Tillmans and Nan Goldin, to Jamie Hawkesworth’s everyday celebrations and the photographers covering the crisis in Ukraine, here are this year’s highlights in photography and ideas.
Ashish Shah, A young boy deep in his thoughts overlooking the town, 2022

Ashish Shah’s Languorous Portrait of the Indian Countryside

Known for his distinctive work in fashion photography, Shah grew up in Uttarakhand, a state where many are leaving for the city. What would it mean to return home?

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Aperture’s 2022 Holiday Gift Guide

Legendary photographers. Iconic monographs. Thought-provoking essay books. Here is the ultimate guide to the best photobooks to give this holiday season.

5 Facts about Diane Arbus, Fifty Years Later

On the anniversary of the groundbreaking 1972 posthumous retrospective and monograph, a look back at five lesser-known details from Arbus’s life and career.

Aperture Celebrates Seventy Years in Print

The “70th Anniversary” issue explores the magazine’s past while charting its future—and features original commissions by leading artists and photographers.
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