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.
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.
For the Thai American photographer, small beauties and unforgiving travesties are all part of what it truly means to live in Louisiana.
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.
The artist’s visual jokes, out-of-place expressions, and even a cutout of his own face mark his presence in the world—and tell a story about Asian American identity.
Syjuco’s rigorous photographs show how interrogating institutional collections can be a potent tool in decolonizing American history.
At home in suburban Detroit, the Chinese American photographer invokes the unstable fantasias of personal memory.
A daguerreotype of a woman from the 1850s speaks to contested ideas of place, identity, and belonging—and offers urgent lessons for today.
After a devastating fire in early 2020, the images in New York’s Museum of Chinese in America’s collection continue to tell a story of resilience.
The Memphis-born photographer navigates performative intimacy, the legacy of the Mississippi Delta Chinese, and the pitfalls of visual language for queer Asian men.
In the first of our new series, “Introducing,” which highlights exciting new voices in photography, Aperture speaks with a queer, Indonesian photographer who makes explosive pictures of his family.
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.
