Aperture 175

A Crude World
By Serge Enderlin, Serge Michel, and Paolo Woods
Photographs by Paolo Woods
A photographer’s twelve-country odyssey in search of the secret life of the oil that makes the world go around.

Elaine Reichek: Stitchellated Pics
by David Frankel
From digitized images of paintings to hand-embroidered tapestries, Reichek’s work synthesizes old and new technologies, and winds up transcending both.

Donna Ferrato on Libido Road
by Claudia Glenn Dowling
Over a span of twenty years, Ferrato has visited swingers’ nightspots and boudoirs, with camera in hand, to document the lives of the polyamorous.

Elemental Vision: Matter, Paradox and Other Absorptions of Doug and Mike Starn
by Frederick Kaufman
The Starn’s experiments with a replica of a nineteenth-century carbon-arc lamp result in a triumphant fusion of science, philosophy, and art.

The Unquiet Landscapes of Rosemary Laing
by Abigail Solomon-Godeau
In her latest series, Australian artist Laing reveals a land where both indigenous and non-indigenous peoples contend with a state of “unbelonging.”