In the age of drone strikes and nuclear threats, artists challenge expectations of photographing conflict.
Dasha Yastrebova captures a fleeting moment in Moscow’s queer underground.
In Ayesha Malik’s new photobook, a California-style suburb in the heart of oil country.
Two writers speak about the influential role—and responsibility—of art criticism in Africa today.
In a studio outside of Cape Town, photographer Nico Krijno refashions sculpture and performance.
Looking to vintage photos and alternative processes, an Angolan Portuguese artist engages the infinite possibilities of an image.
With a rush of color, David Benjamin Sherry’s new photograms gesture to abstract painting and gay history.
In photographs and photomontages, the Madagascar-born artist considers the global reverberations of African culture.
In her solo exhibition at the Venice Biennale, the Australian photographer spins stories of displacement.
Eric Gyamfi reflects on his activism, photography, and telling the stories of West Africa’s queer communities.
Aida Muluneh, founder of the Addis Foto Fest, speaks about how education plays a central role in connecting African photographers.
In poetic, politically charged images and videos, Zineb Sedira confronts the recent history of North Africa.
For Akinbode Akinbiyi, new technologies have helped and hindered the development of photography in Africa.
Picturing friends and family in vivid colors, the nineteen-year-old photographer reframes representations of masculinity.
The acclaimed photographer pushes self-portraiture into new realms of gender-bending theatricality.
Charlie Ahearn and Grand Wizzard Theodore discuss the rise of Hip-Hop at the Ecstasy Garage Disco.
A major retrospective surveys the photographer’s career and social activism.
In his solo exhibition at the Venice Biennale, Dirk Braeckman turns toward the existential
Aperture’s fall issue, “Arrhythmic Mythic Ra,” refracts themes of family, social history, and the astrophysical through the eyes of guest editor Deana Lawson, one of the most compelling photographers working today.
