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Elaine Constantine, Steve in his kitchen, 1993–96

Picturing Britain’s Working Class after the “End of History”

An exhibition in England asks how a generation of blue-collar British photographers have responded to the rising tide of neoliberalism.

Ed Templeton’s Delirious Skater Chronicle

Part memoir, part document of a punk-infused scene, Templeton’s recent book explores the lives of skateboarders crisscrossing the world in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

A Photographer Recasts the Secret Lives of Teenage Girls

Inspired by 2000s-era teen-girl magazines, Elizabeth Renstrom uses a mix of real and AI-generated imagery to consider the ongoing effects of media on young women.

How Gregory Halpern Found His Voice in Buffalo

The photographer speaks with his brother, the journalist Jake Halpern, about growing up in a city of surreal sights and memorable characters.
Color self-portrait of the artist against a light blue background

Juan Pablo Echeverri’s Subversive and Multifarious Self-Portraits

The Colombian artist deployed a practice of wit, charm, humor, and exaggeration in his photography, uncovering the “truths” beneath cultural conventions.

Tom Sandberg’s Elusive Photographs Show Mysteries in Plain Sight

The Norwegian who pioneered photography in Scandinavia was always training his lens on the objects that we overlook, offering black-and-white scenes scorched of excess.

Hannah Whitaker’s Images About Technology and Anxiety at the Turn of the Millennium

In a series of photographs that conceal or duplicate human forms, Whitaker imagines how the digital revolution has fragmented everyday experience and meaning.

Wolfgang Tillmans’s Democratic Vision of Photography

For Tillmans, whose work is the subject of a major new retrospective, art prompts us to reflect on political and social realities while also making us feel safe and loved.

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Aperture No. 257

Aperture presents “Image Worlds to Come: Photography & AI,” a timely and urgent issue that explores how artificial intelligence is quickly transforming the field of photography and our broader culture of images.

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