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How a Hmong Photographer Creates a Striking Narrative about Laos

With floral imagery and splintered memories, Pao Houa Her imbues her photographs with desire for the homeland.

The Artist Creating Ethereal Photograms from the River Thames

Based on encounters with light and small objects gathered from the river, Anne Hardy makes her own radiant universe.
Theo Eshetu, Brave New World, 1999.

A Prolific Video Artist’s Infinite Screens

Raised in Africa and Europe, Theo Eshetu makes kaleidoscopic films that reflect the dilemmas of biography and belonging.
Baldwin Lee, Untitled, mid-1980s

Baldwin Lee’s Southern Journeys

In the 1980s, the photographer took a two-thousand-mile road trip through the American South, making portraits that glow with beauty and trust.

Feng Li’s Absurdist Dramas on the Streets of Chinese Cities

The photographer’s latest work delivers a surreal world, where joy and grief, cruelty and fragility are distributed among kindred spirits.
Dave Swindells, Thinking big and living large in Pacha, 1989

Visions of Nightlife from Johannesburg to Ibiza

Two recent photobooks offer up nostalgia for the dance floor—and imagine the hedonism of a post-pandemic future.

Judith Joy Ross’s Timeless and Empathic Portraits

Ross has been called one of the greatest portrait photographers in the history of the medium. As a long-overdue retrospective opens in Europe, a new generation will witness her radical belief in the individual.

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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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