James Bidgood’s queer and candy-colored photographs were camp before camp was stylish.
Isaac Julien’s latest film explores the life and work of a man who believed in the power of photographs to transform American society.
For the second installment of our new series “Introducing,” Aperture speaks with a photographer tracing the globalization of rubber from the Amazon to Ohio.
For Jane Evelyn Atwood, who has photographed sex workers and prisoners, it’s all about the balance between intuition and occasion.
A long-overdue exhibition expands the canon of gay photography.
Mahmoud Khaled considers the legacy of the “Cairo 52,” the men who were arrested in 2001 at a gay-friendly nightclub.
Mark McKnight’s black-and-white images of bodies and landscapes challenge Eurocentric ideas about male beauty—and aim to make “straight” photography a little less straight.
Carolyn Drake’s photographs of the 2018 wildfires point to the human role in creating a new, terrifying normal.
Forty years after the Iran’s turbulent political transformation, a look back at the images that captivated the world.
For nearly a decade, Nina Katchadourian has made images on airplanes using only a cell phone and found objects.
From the Troubles in Northern Ireland to the wars in Southeast Asia, McCullin’s images defined the conflicts of the twentieth century.
Arguiñe Escandón and Yann Gross travel to Peru in search of connections to nature.
From over 1,000 submissions, meet our five shortlisted artists.
Essential advice on submitting to Aperture’s annual open-call exhibition.
In her latest exhibition, Phoebe Boswell takes self-portraits—and self-healing—to a new level.
In the first of our new series, “Introducing,” which highlights exciting new voices in photography, Aperture speaks with a queer, Indonesian photographer who makes explosive pictures of his family.
Hashem Shakeri’s pastel-hued, otherworldly photographs depict a landscape on the verge of destruction.
In her playful, collaborative photographs, the Chinese photographer upends the meaning of “muse.”
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.