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Winner of the 2023 Aperture Portfolio Prize, Nguyen casts an intimate gaze upon a generation confronting historical stereotypes.
In 2019, Brian Lau traveled to Ho Chi Minh City to document the last months of his father’s life, creating a moving meditation on family and grief.
The photographer’s multilayered still lifes interrogate the trade routes between Africa, the Caribbean, and the US—and show how memory emerges through the senses.
Ziyu Wang’s playful portraits parody the social expectations of masculinity and what a “man” should look like.
In his portraits, street photographs, and still lifes, Mahajan envisions Mumbai through the eyes of a sculptor who walks the city in search of a muse.
Here are the shortlisted artists and finalists for Aperture’s annual award, which aims to spotlight new talent in contemporary photography.
Winner of the 2022 Aperture Portfolio Prize, the Colombian photographer collaborates with young men living in legal limbo, creating evocative images about dreams and memory.
With his striking portraits and vibrant colors, Brenner considers the transformations of Guatemalan society.
Ovcharenko’s depiction of powerful women feels rooted in the radical visual language of early Soviet photography—as does her use of sport as a metaphor for community.
Drawing upon the history of the Pacific War and Japanese American internment in the US, Tsubota explores how memory is intimately connected to images.
Winner of the 2021 Aperture Portfolio Prize, Smallwood was inspired by the history of Seneca Village, a nineteenth-century Black community in New York.
Photographing in Anaheim, California, William Camargo addresses issues of gentrification and the city’s history of systemic erasure of Chicanx and Latinx narratives.
Working collaboratively with their mother, Chance DeVille creates a photographic examination of the long-lasting effects of domestic abuse and trauma.
After a shocking family discovery, Jarod Lew examines the Asian American experience and the long history of survival and erasure in displacement.
Anouchka Renaud-Eck’s vibrant photographs consider the traditions of Indian matchmaking through the lens of contemporary youth culture.
From over 900 submissions, meet our five shortlisted artists.
From over 1,000 submissions, meet our five shortlisted artists.
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.
