Barak Zemer pictures intimate moments of isolation in the sprawling metropolis of Los Angeles.
Kitsch and pleasure in the information age.
A new exhibition offers an inside look at the artist’s book-making practice.
In suburban LA, Sophie Tianxin Chen produces scenes of the mundane and perverse.
Are fashion photographers responsible for producing truthful images?
Star Montana’s dreamy portraits capture the golden aura of East Los Angeles.
In September 1963, six children were killed in racially motivated violence in Alabama. Fifty years later, Dawoud Bey pays tribute to a community’s resilience.
From biohacking to vitamins, photographer Matthieu Gafsou’s latest series questions the relationship between human bodies and technology.
Working between portraiture and documentary, Khalik Allah’s new book tracks Harlem by night.
Collecting images and posting them to Instagram, the artist creates space for an alternative history of youth culture.
Aperture’s free On Sight curriculum brings together students of different backgrounds in Los Angeles.
Laia Abril’s new book provides a harrowing record of women’s struggles to access family planning.
When Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia’s capital in August 1968, Josef Koudelka was one of the first on the scene.
Like any metropolis, LA is dynamic, changing, evolving, contested.
In Bangladesh, the brutal arrest of a prominent photographer incites an international outcry.
In a series of haunting Polaroids, Ryan Spencer draws upon neo-noir movies set in Los Angeles.
Remembering Laura Aguilar’s unapologetically queer bodies.
Shani Jamila, Larry Ossei-Mensah, and Teju Cole discuss travel, mobility, and the meaning of images.
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.
