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Two Artists Interrogate the "White Gaze" of National Geographic

Pairing archival images and text, Michelle Dizon and Việt Lê pose a razor-sharp critique of colonialism.

A Human Cartography of Collective Struggles

In his recent photobook, Martín Weber negotiates the past and the future in Latin America.
Mickalene Thomas, Untitled, Orlando, 2019

Orlando Now

Inspired by Virginia Woolf, Mickalene Thomas imagines a classic, gender-crossing heroine as a fashion muse for the twenty-first century.

The Two South African Artists Who Can Be “Anything” They Want

Jamal Nxedlana travels through Johannesburg with the gender-defying artist duo FAKA.

13 Publications that Reimagine Queer Visibility

From Zanele Muholi’s radical statements of identity to Nan Goldin’s iconic visual diary, Aperture highlights artists whose work illuminates LGBTQ+ perspectives.

These Queer PhotoBooks Changed My Life

Eleven curators, writers, and artists reflect on images of queer identity past and present.

Rosalyne Blumenstein and the Art of Living

In her newest series, artist and activist Zackary Drucker pays homage to a trans icon.

Desire and Loss, from Stonewall to the AIDS Crisis

Working with vintage gay erotica, Pacifico Silano is committed to understanding how trauma and queer identity commingle.

Paolo Di Paolo’s Paradise Found

An Italian photographer of Hollywood stars, now in his 90s, finally makes his debut.

What is a Photo-Text Book?

Since the nineteenth century, photographers and writers have collaborated as equals—to varying degrees of success.

Introducing: Luther Konadu

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.

A Trailblazing Fashion Photographer's Turn to Collage

In the 1970s, Deborah Turbeville eschewed highly-sexualized photographs in favor of haunting portraits.

10 Magnum Photographers on their Obsessions in Images

What keeps a photographer returning to a particular subject, theme, place, or person?

Reckoning with Canada's History of Whitewashing

Two artists delve into a national archive, revealing a counter-history of colonialism, trauma, and erasure.

Can this Young Photographer Dissolve the Drama of Gender?

With his queer, neoclassical portraits, Michael Bailey-Gates wants to start a revolution.
Sunil Gupta, Untitled #22, 1976

Christopher Street Revisited

In the 1970s, Sunil Gupta photographed moments of desire and liberation in New York’s gay capital.

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.

Barbara Ess is Always Watching

An artist investigates the aesthetics of surveillance at home and on the U.S.-Mexico Border.
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Aperture No. 257

Aperture presents “Image Worlds to Come: Photography & AI,” a timely and urgent issue that explores how artificial intelligence is quickly transforming the field of photography and our broader culture of images.

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