Philip Montgomery shares the stories behind nine images in his new photobook “American Mirror.”
Tirtha Lawati’s portraits of his family’s life during COVID-19 offer a playful, tender depiction of home and cultural belonging.
Eight months after New York’s lockdown, a writer returns to the city’s galleries and museums—and finds images of righteous fury and ecstatic communion.
What does an insatiable collector do when all of New York’s bookstores and markets are closed?
In the wake of the pandemic and worldwide protests, exhibitions that address climate change, civil rights, and Black photographers take on new resonance.
From Brooklyn to Bangladesh, what to read, watch, and listen to—and why to keep going.
Six photography curators consider images that have new resonance in the era of social distancing.
Taken during shelter-in-place orders, Pascal Shirley’s aerial pictures of LA are full of poetic foreboding.
As millions file for unemployment, a large-scale exhibition explores the meanings of workwear.
Eli Durst speaks about team-building exercises, suburban Americana, and why his photographs resist interpretation.
In the age of pandemic, the romance of the empty street becomes the terror of absence.
Nan Goldin, Alec Soth, Jamel Shabazz, and others share the music that comforts, inspires, or makes them move.
The photographer and cocurator of the 2020 Aperture Summer Open speaks about glamorous bodegas, New York maximalism, and why art is essential—even during a crisis.
With museums and galleries closed, the touch-screen world is the only one we have.
Three artists confront how COVID-19 has changed their lives and work—and how they see the 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.
