An artist and filmmaker contends with Iranian identity.
The celebrated photojournalist James Nachtwey has covered global conflicts for four decades. But in his current retrospective, politics is an afterthought.
Bouchra Khalili wants to make a platform for migrant and minority voices—but when do images become theater?
In her latest series, Alex Prager conjures the drama of Golden Age Hollywood.
In two recent films, Kahlil Joseph and Arthur Jafa consider the poetics of African American life.
Through uncanny vintage photographs, Laura Larson tells a story of love and attachment.
In photographs and a new film, RaMell Ross offers a poetic vision of Southern life.
Sharing, surveillance, and data are changing the way we look and see.
Rediscovering the surrealist artist’s “Unconcerned Photographs.”
Mark Steinmetz’s project on the Atlanta Airport portrays the American South in all its complexity and contradiction.
An exhibition at the Getty deconstructs an identity crisis in contemporary photography.
What does it mean to confront the history of racial violence in the United States? In a wide-ranging conversation, Bryan Stevenson and Sarah Lewis discuss images, power, and justice.
From colonial legacies to gender politics, FotoFest tackles photography from the country and its diaspora.
How has an experimental platform for photographers created a new form of image making?
In a new exhibition, Jonathas de Andrade confronts his country’s complicated past and present.
A new museum in Morocco becomes a destination for contemporary art.
Ear Hustle podcast creator Nigel Poor uncovers a trove of photographs at California’s most infamous prison.
Zoe Leonard’s retrospective investigates the politics of image making.
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.
