From Juergen Teller and Mary Manning to the debates around AI’s influence on image-making, here are this year’s highlights in photography and ideas.
During World War II, Miyatake made surreptitious photographs of Japanese Americans incarcerated by the US government. He saw little need to glorify, humanize, or even individualize the prisoners—because he was one of them.
An expansive new book shows how the magazine format was a major, genre-defining space for Japanese photographers.
The photographer once believed that he had to turn his back on his Chinese culture. Today, his images show what it means to embrace authenticity.
In her self-portraits and staged images, the Filipino American artist explores the borderlands of identity.
In his photographs, Jarod Lew asks his family to reenact scenes from everyday life, invoking stories that wrestle with the tensions between control and care.
Priya Suresh Kambli works with pictures of her family in India and the US, making connections between past and present.
Asian American photographers have always found inventive ways to engage with interior spaces, often against the demands of public visibility.
Stephanie Hueon Tung, guest editor of Aperture‘s summer 2023 issue, on the artists confronting the tensions between past and present—and what it means to be Asian in America.
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.
