From Kimowan Metchewais’s layered images on Indigenous identity to Robert Adams’s meditations on the American West, here are titles that explore the relationship between photography and the natural world.
For Indigenous artists, can photographs provide a space of visual sovereignty?
Carolyn Drake’s photographs of the 2018 wildfires point to the human role in creating a new, terrifying normal.
Arguiñe Escandón and Yann Gross travel to Peru in search of connections to nature.
Along the coast of South Africa, Thirza Schaap collects discarded bottles and shopping bags to create fanciful sculptures.
How Chuck Shacochis made Edward Furlong into an art star.
Eight years after a devastating tsunami, Lieko Shiga investigates Japan’s haunted landscapes.
Twenty years after his first visit to New Zealand, photographer Martin Toft makes a photobook about—and for—the Māori.
David Benjamin Sherry’s spectacular photographs of contested lands.
In the age of climate change, how are photographers and artists envisioning dramatically politicized landscapes?
Aperture’s fall issue, “Arrhythmic Mythic Ra,” refracts themes of family, social history, and the astrophysical through the eyes of guest editor Deana Lawson, one of the most compelling photographers working today.
