Against the backdrop of the US presidential election, a photographer documents growing cultural tensions in the Pacific Northwest’s rural communities.
Click here to learn the names of the six portfolio prize finalists. The winner will be announced in June 2013.
Read a statement by Lesley A. Martin, creative director of Aperture.
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.