Coreen Simpson—photographer, writer, jeweler—has done it all. Working for publications such as Essence, Unique New York, and The Village Voice, from the late 1970s onward, Simpson covered New York’s art and fashion scenes, producing portraits of a wide range of Black artists, literary figures, and celebrities. Her iconic jewelry, the Black Cameo, has been worn by everyone from the model Iman to civil-rights leader Rosa Parks.
For our October 2025 Aperture PhotoBook Club gathering, Aperture’s executive director, Sarah Meister, will join the artist alongside Aperture’s editor in chief, Michael Famighetti, assistant editor Iesha E. Coppin-Forde, and one of the book’s talented designers, Adam Turnbull of Pacific.
The artist will be available after the event to sign copies of A Monograph.
Register by emailing bookclub@aperture.org.
Support for the 2025 Aperture PhotoBook Club is generously provided by FotoFocus.
Iesha E. Coppin-Forde is assistant editor at Aperture. Iesha joined Aperture in 2023 as an editorial work scholar. She assists in managing, researching, and developing select book projects. Iesha holds an MA in fashion studies from Parsons School of Design at the New School, and a BBA in fashion merchandising with a concentration in publishing from LIM College, New York.
Elizabeth Karp-Evans and Adam Turnbull are cofounders of Pacific. Pacific’s work in publication design and production has won awards from The American Institute of Graphic Arts, the New York Type Director’s Club and the Applied Arts Award, among others. In 2022, the Museum of Modern Art Library in New York acquired the entire Pacific catalogue.
Sarah Meister is executive director of Aperture. She joined Aperture in May 2021, following more than twenty-five years at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She is the founder and host of the Aperture PhotoBook Club.
Michael Famighetti is editor in chief of Aperture magazine and the editorial program.
Coreen Simpson (born in New York, 1942) is a celebrated photographer and jewelry designer from Brooklyn, whose career has spanned more than five decades. Her work has been featured in Essence, The New York Times, The Village Voice, and Vogue, among other publications. Her photographs are held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Bronx Museum; Le Musée de la Photographie, Belgium; and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library, among others.
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