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Announcing the 2019 Aperture Portfolio Prize Shortlist

From over 1,000 submissions, meet our five shortlisted artists.

3 Photo Editors On Why You Should Enter the Aperture Summer Open

Essential advice on submitting to Aperture’s annual open-call exhibition.

Documenting the Weaponization of Water Along the U.S.-Mexico Border

In remote stretches of desert, Richard Misrach and Guillermo Galindo record traces of volunteer efforts—and attempts by Border Patrols to stop them.

What Does It Mean to Navigate Queer Life in Hong Kong?

Meet the winner of the 2018 Aperture Portfolio Prize.

Aperture's Best Photography Features of 2018

From the photographs that inspired Sofia Coppola’s films to Zanele Muholi’s visual activism, here are this year’s highlights in photography and ideas.

Fifteen Photographers at a Crossroads

How can a photograph transform us?

Inside the Revolutionary Work of Artist and AIDS Activist David Wojnarowicz

Aperture members came together for a private tour of the new David Wojnarowicz exhibition at the Whitney Museum.

The Radical Poetics of David Wojnarowicz

A preview of the Whitney Museum’s survey of the iconoclastic New York artist.

9 Swimming Pools

Beat the heat wave with these scenes of poolside splendor.

Pushing the Boundaries

A preview of the artist Loredana Nemes’s first major museum exhibition.

Gardens of Earthly Delight

Wander through cherry trees and orange shrubs with photographers such as Joel Meyerowitz, Collier Schorr, and Luigi Ghirri.

13 Photographers on What Freedom Means to Them

Highlights from the Magnum Square Print Sale

Starring Sanlé Sory

From a vivacious studio photographer, the music and style of 1960s West Africa.

Man Ray as You Don't Know Him

Rediscovering the surrealist artist’s “Unconcerned Photographs.”

India Takes Houston

From colonial legacies to gender politics, FotoFest tackles photography from the country and its diaspora.

Sama Alshaibi on Sand Rushes In

Artist Sama Alshaibi talks about her newest book, Sand Rushes In. Alshaibi’s lyrical multimedia work explores the…

Inside The Many Lives of Erik Kessels

The Many Lives of Erik Kessels presents the highly anticipated first illustrated survey of this pioneering and…

Inside Rinko Kawauchi's Halo

In recent years, Rinko Kawauchi’s exploration of the cadences of the everyday has begun to swing farther…
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Aperture Magazine No. 261, “The Craft Issue” Cover
Aperture Magazine

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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