In the 1970s, Mimi Plumb began photographing adolescent life and the bleached-out landscapes of California. Her suspenseful new book foretells the disasters of the present—and the future.
Meet this year’s shortlist jury, featuring Amanda Maddox, Joanna Milter, and Drew Sawyer.
Eight years after a devastating tsunami, Lieko Shiga investigates Japan’s haunted landscapes.
Carmen Winant’s archive considers the terrors and pleasures of childbirth.
Aperture’s issue on craft features photographers who make pictures the slow way—building camera obscuras, creating photograms, and laboring in traditional darkrooms to make handmade, unrepeatable forms.