Pairing archival images and text, Michelle Dizon and Việt Lê pose a razor-sharp critique of colonialism.
In his recent photobook, Martín Weber negotiates the past and the future in Latin America.
Inspired by Virginia Woolf, Mickalene Thomas imagines a classic, gender-crossing heroine as a fashion muse for the twenty-first century.
Jamal Nxedlana travels through Johannesburg with the gender-defying artist duo FAKA.
From Zanele Muholi’s radical statements of identity to Nan Goldin’s iconic visual diary, Aperture highlights artists whose work illuminates LGBTQ+ perspectives.
Eleven curators, writers, and artists reflect on images of queer identity past and present.
In her newest series, artist and activist Zackary Drucker pays homage to a trans icon.
Working with vintage gay erotica, Pacifico Silano is committed to understanding how trauma and queer identity commingle.
An Italian photographer of Hollywood stars, now in his 90s, finally makes his debut.
Since the nineteenth century, photographers and writers have collaborated as equals—to varying degrees of success.
For the latest installment of “Introducing,” Aperture speaks with Luther Konadu, whose constructed photographs riff on the work of Carrie Mae Weems and Paul Mpagi Sepuya.
In the 1970s, Deborah Turbeville eschewed highly-sexualized photographs in favor of haunting portraits.
What keeps a photographer returning to a particular subject, theme, place, or person?
Two artists delve into a national archive, revealing a counter-history of colonialism, trauma, and erasure.
With his queer, neoclassical portraits, Michael Bailey-Gates wants to start a revolution.
In the 1970s, Sunil Gupta photographed moments of desire and liberation in New York’s gay capital.
Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s pioneering novel “Orlando,” Aperture’s summer issue presents original photographs and writings that celebrate openness, curiosity, and human possibility.
An artist investigates the aesthetics of surveillance at home and on the U.S.-Mexico Border.
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.
