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Richard Misrach on the Eerie Grandeur of Global Trade

Rebecca Solnit considers the photographer’s recent work tracing histories of shipping routes and their impact on the natural environment.
Xaviera Simmons, Sundown (Number Two), 2018

How Can Photography Shape our Relationship to the Environment?

An exhibition in Pittsburgh highlights the ways images can reveal the long-forgotten and unseen histories of ecology.
Virginia Hanusik, Raised House in Delacroix, St. Bernard Parish, 2022

In Louisiana, a Photographer Charts Storms and Weather as Markers of Time

Virginia Hanusik’s portrait of coastal Louisiana looks beyond narratives of ruin and resilience.

8 Photobooks that Consider How Artists Engage with the Environment

From Kimowan Metchewais’s layered images on Indigenous identity to Robert Adams’s meditations on the American West, here are titles that explore the relationship between photography and the natural world.

A Japanese Photographer’s Encounters with Natural Disasters

Eight years after a devastating tsunami, Lieko Shiga investigates Japan’s haunted landscapes.

Will America's National Monuments Survive the Trump Administration?

David Benjamin Sherry’s spectacular photographs of contested lands.

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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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