In the 1970s, Sunil Gupta photographed moments of desire and liberation in New York’s gay capital.
For Jane Evelyn Atwood, who has photographed sex workers and prisoners, it’s all about the balance between intuition and occasion.
Mahmoud Khaled considers the legacy of the “Cairo 52,” the men who were arrested in 2001 at a gay-friendly nightclub.
Hashem Shakeri’s pastel-hued, otherworldly photographs depict a landscape on the verge of destruction.
In her playful, collaborative photographs, the Chinese photographer upends the meaning of “muse.”
Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.’s photographs capture the private moments hiding in our everyday, public lives.
Throughout his career, photographs and family narratives have been at the center of Thomas Allen Harris’s films.
Twenty years after his first visit to New Zealand, photographer Martin Toft makes a photobook about—and for—the Māori.
A British photographer’s fashion-forward family pictures.
What can the doll community tell us about relationships today?
In an era of monopolized truth, Mexico is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist.
A recent exhibition considers the legacy of James Baldwin and the civil rights era in photographs.
Should an American publication have tried to “rescue” a boy from poverty?
The artist discusses feminism, photograms, and what it means to “hover” in the world.
Matthew Leifheit conjures history and fantasy in the fabled gay enclave.
Kitsch and pleasure in the information age.
In an interview, the visual activist speaks about courage, rethinking history, and the politics of exclusion.
From biohacking to vitamins, photographer Matthieu Gafsou’s latest series questions the relationship between human bodies and technology.
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.
