Kimberly Juanita Brown reveals how the photographic enterprise is haunted by racial violence, finding new ways of looking at the dead and the living.
A visit to North Carolina influenced the photographer’s ideas about the power of family.
Clifford Prince King speaks with Lyle Ashton Harris about displaying sensual images of Black queer men on bus shelters and newsstands.
From monographs by Awol Erizku and Deana Lawson, to collections on fashion, community, and power, here are essential titles to read this Black History Month.
In his latest exhibition, the artist considers the poetics of space, presenting sculptures and photographs that move off the wall.
For more than fifty years, Charles “Teenie” Harris created a vivid record of the city. Now, a major archival project stands to reveal the scope of his vision.
Ekow Eshun, Tanisha C. Ford, Tyler Mitchell, and Antwaun Sargent on the visionary photographer whose images and activism helped popularize the slogan “Black Is Beautiful.”
The photographer Adraint Bereal captures the agony and ecstasy of what it is to be a Black college student in the United States.
From monographs by Ming Smith and Deana Lawson to compendiums about activism and fashion, here are must-read books that envision Black lives.
Since the 1980s, the London-based organization has propelled a commitment to the visibility of Black artists by centering identity and human rights.
Winner of the 2021 Aperture Portfolio Prize, Smallwood was inspired by the history of Seneca Village, a nineteenth-century Black community in New York.
A solo exhibition celebrates six decades of Barnor’s cosmopolitan photography in Ghana and the United Kingdom.
In the 1970s, a group of photographers made poetic, affirmative representations of Black life. But why did most museums fail to recognize or validate their efforts?
By showing Black life as leisure, repose, and outdoor play, Mitchell expands our visual vocabulary of race and space.
In these photographs, queer acts and communal yearning flourish beyond the confines of mainstream gay culture.
Creating tender scenes with friends and lovers, the LA-based artist offers a stirring vision of everyday ritual.
In the 1960s, Kwame Brathwaite’s fashion photographs sent a riveting message about Black culture and freedom.
In his glittering portraits, the artist is building an alternate world.
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.
