Aperture 234: Earth

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8 Photobooks that Consider How Artists Engage with the Environment

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.

Notions of Land

For Indigenous artists, can photographs provide a space of visual sovereignty?

California on Fire

Carolyn Drake’s photographs of the 2018 wildfires point to the human role in creating a new, terrifying normal.

Foreigners in a Foreign Land

Arguiñe Escandón and Yann Gross travel to Peru in search of connections to nature.

The Photographer Giving New Life to Ocean Plastic

Along the coast of South Africa, Thirza Schaap collects discarded bottles and shopping bags to create fanciful sculptures.

The Photographer Behind John Waters's Cult Classic "Pecker"

How Chuck Shacochis made Edward Furlong into an art star.

A Japanese Photographer’s Encounters with Natural Disasters

Eight years after a devastating tsunami, Lieko Shiga investigates Japan’s haunted landscapes.

Who Can Tell the Story of an Indigenous Community?

Twenty years after his first visit to New Zealand, photographer Martin Toft makes a photobook about—and for—the Māori.

Will America's National Monuments Survive the Trump Administration?

David Benjamin Sherry’s spectacular photographs of contested lands.

On the Cover: Aperture's "Earth" Issue

In the age of climate change, how are photographers and artists envisioning dramatically politicized landscapes?

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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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