Since the 1980s, Rivera has photographed friends, lovers, and stars of the city’s queer scene, portraying Mexican American culture with grit and glamour.
Through classes and programming, Las Fotos has become an essential space for teens to learn the basics of photography—and develop their self-expression.
Steven Molina Contreras’s tender portraits trace a multigenerational story of immigration, sacrifice, and belonging.
For decades, the artist Ken Gonzales-Day has collected photographs that represent a century of dramatic change for Mexican Americans.
In her photography, Báez explores the complexity of care, touch, and belonging among Puerto Rican women in the United States and beyond.
How Arlene Dávila, Elizabeth Ferrer, and E. Carmen Ramos are working to challenge mainstream art history by inserting Latinx artists into white spaces.
In the midst of a global climate emergency, the artist’s timely photographic collages reconsider gender and identity in the Dominican Republic.
Pilar Tompkins Rivas, guest editor of Aperture’s Winter 2021 issue, on the images that collectively chart the history and future of Latinx culture.
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.
