For the photographer Maja Daniels, history is an uneasy conglomerate of fiction and testimony.
The photographer’s compelling and confounding images riff on the idea of the domestic realm as a private theater of Black humanity.
Osamu Kanemura and Hiroko Komatsu speak about photographing Tokyo, the virtues of the Plaubel Makina camera, and why a single picture is never enough.
The Soviet-era Czech Surrealist responded to totalitarian rule with an austere but rebellious sense of humor.
The acclaimed photographer brings together an issue about dreams and chance.
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.