In Tamil Nadu, Gayatri Ganju photographed the Indigenous Kurumba people and listened to their stories—and was allowed to take one out into the world.
In the wooded enclaves of Northern California, Michael Schmelling documents what’s left of the 1960s back-to-the-land movement.
In the drylands of Balochistan, a photographer chronicles the art of everyday survival.
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.