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Aperture 244 - Fall 2021

Cosmologies

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Baldwin Lee, Untitled, mid-1980s

Baldwin Lee’s Southern Journeys

In the 1980s, the photographer took a two-thousand-mile road trip through the American South, making portraits that glow with beauty and trust.

Feng Li’s Absurdist Dramas on the Streets of Chinese Cities

The photographer’s latest work delivers a surreal world, where joy and grief, cruelty and fragility are distributed among kindred spirits.

Judith Joy Ross’s Timeless and Empathic Portraits

Ross has been called one of the greatest portrait photographers in the history of the medium. As a long-overdue retrospective opens in Europe, a new generation will witness her radical belief in the individual.
Dave Swindells, Thinking big and living large in Pacha, 1989

Visions of Nightlife from Johannesburg to Ibiza

Two recent photobooks offer up nostalgia for the dance floor—and imagine the hedonism of a post-pandemic future.
Sunil Gupta, Towards an Indian Gay Image, Qutb Minar 2, 1983

Sunil Gupta’s Vision for a Queer Politics of Belonging

Gupta has spent his career photographing queer subjects in India—and inspired a new generation to insist on making confident, unflinching work.

Arundhati Roy Sees Delhi as a Novel

The renowned author and activist discusses the many landscapes—political, environmental, and architectural—that give shape to the city’s story.
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