Elle Pérez

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At the Venice Biennale, a Surreal and Intimate Showing for Photography

From Yuki Kihara’s reinterpretation of Gauguin to Elle Pérez’s “configurations,” the international exhibition features a range of perspectives on image making.

The Original Ballad

How did Nan Goldin’s slideshow with hundreds of images, presented at bars and nightclubs, become an iconic photobook?

The Photographer’s Playlist

Nan Goldin, Alec Soth, Jamel Shabazz, and others share the music that comforts, inspires, or makes them move.

Tilda Swinton Guest Edits Aperture’s “Orlando” Issue

Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s pioneering novel “Orlando,” Aperture’s summer issue presents original photographs and writings that celebrate openness, curiosity, and human possibility.

Elle Pérez’s Havens of Queer Liberation

On dance floors from the Bronx to Baltimore, the artist captures LGBT youth who refuse to be forgotten.

Freedom of the Night: 11 Reflections on Orlando

Following the attack on the Pulse club, artists and writers consider the nightclub as a symbolic space in queer culture.

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Aperture Magazine

Aperture No. 261

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.

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