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Announcing the 2024 Aperture Portfolio Prize Shortlist 

Here are the shortlisted artists for Aperture’s annual award, which aims to spotlight new talent in contemporary photography.

Vân-Nhi Nguyen’s Bold Perspective on the Lives of Young People in Vietnam

Winner of the 2023 Aperture Portfolio Prize, Nguyen casts an intimate gaze upon a generation confronting historical stereotypes.

A Photographer’s Final Collaboration with His Father

In 2019, Brian Lau traveled to Ho Chi Minh City to document the last months of his father’s life, creating a moving meditation on family and grief.

Samantha Box’s Pictures of Dreams and Diaspora

The photographer’s multilayered still lifes interrogate the trade routes between Africa, the Caribbean, and the US—and show how memory emerges through the senses.

How a Young Chinese Photographer Subverts Traditional Gender Roles

Ziyu Wang’s playful portraits parody the social expectations of masculinity and what a “man” should look like.

Akshay Mahajan Searches for Mumbai’s Past Lives

In his portraits, street photographs, and still lifes, Mahajan envisions Mumbai through the eyes of a sculptor who walks the city in search of a muse.

Announcing the 2023 Aperture Portfolio Prize Shortlist

Here are the shortlisted artists and finalists for Aperture’s annual award, which aims to spotlight new talent in contemporary photography.

Felipe Romero Beltrán Chronicles the Experiences of Young Immigrant Men in Spain

Winner of the 2022 Aperture Portfolio Prize, the Colombian photographer collaborates with young men living in legal limbo, creating evocative images about dreams and memory.

2022 Aperture Portfolio Prize Runner-Up: Juan Brenner

With his striking portraits and vibrant colors, Brenner considers the transformations of Guatemalan society.

2022 Aperture Portfolio Prize Runner-Up: Margo Ovcharenko

Ovcharenko’s depiction of powerful women feels rooted in the radical visual language of early Soviet photography—as does her use of sport as a metaphor for community.

2022 Portfolio Prize Runner-Up: Adrien Selbert

Thirty years after the Bosnian War, Selbert’s portrait of a country reckons with the aftermath of conflict.

2022 Aperture Portfolio Prize Runner-Up: Allie Tsubota

Drawing upon the history of the Pacific War and Japanese American internment in the US, Tsubota explores how memory is intimately connected to images.

Announcing the 2022 Aperture Portfolio Prize Shortlist

Here are the shortlisted artists and finalists for Aperture’s annual award, which aims to spotlight new talent in contemporary photography.

Donavon Smallwood’s Photographs Envision Black Tranquility in Central Park

Winner of the 2021 Aperture Portfolio Prize, Smallwood was inspired by the history of Seneca Village, a nineteenth-century Black community in New York.

2021 Aperture Portfolio Prize Runner-Up: William Camargo

Photographing in Anaheim, California, William Camargo addresses issues of gentrification and the city’s history of systemic erasure of Chicanx and Latinx narratives.

2021 Aperture Portfolio Prize Runner-Up: Chance DeVille

Working collaboratively with their mother, Chance DeVille creates a photographic examination of the long-lasting effects of domestic abuse and trauma.

2021 Aperture Portfolio Prize Runner-Up: Jarod Lew

After a shocking family discovery, Jarod Lew examines the Asian American experience and the long history of survival and erasure in displacement.

2021 Aperture Portfolio Prize Runner-Up: Anouchka Renaud-Eck

Anouchka Renaud-Eck’s vibrant photographs consider the traditions of Indian matchmaking through the lens of contemporary youth culture.
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Aperture Releases “Counter Histories,” Produced with Magnum Foundation Spring Issue Presents Photographers Who Uncover Personal and Political Histories (New York—March 6, 2024) What creative possibilities are offered by the gaps, absences, and silences in historical records? This spring, Aperture magazine presents “Counter Histories,” an issue produced in collaboration with Magnum Foundation and informed by their…