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For This Young Photographer, A "Simple Song" of Images

Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.’s photographs capture the private moments hiding in our everyday, public lives.

Okwui Enwezor Pioneered a New Kind of Global Exhibition

Through ambitious shows staged around the world, the curator raised the profile of African art and photography.

A Filmmaker's Journeys Across the African Diaspora

Throughout his career, photographs and family narratives have been at the center of Thomas Allen Harris’s films.

On the Cover: Aperture's "Earth" Issue

In the age of climate change, how are photographers and artists envisioning dramatically politicized landscapes?

Looking Back at the New Romantics

A British photographer’s fashion-forward family pictures.

A Surrogate for Love

What can the doll community tell us about relationships today?

Bisi Silva Changed the Way We See African Photography

Through her ambitious curating, writing, and teaching in Africa and beyond, Silva was a force for change in contemporary art.

How Can Photojournalists Navigate the Crisis of Press Freedom in Mexico?

In an era of monopolized truth, Mexico is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist.
Ray K. Metzker, 63 CM-12, Early Philadelphia, 1963

Collapsing Time and Space in Black and White

Ray K. Metzker spent his career exploring the boundaries of photography in order to break them.

Three Women Photographers Reclaim the American Landscape

Susan Lipper, Kristine Potter, and Justine Kurland deconstruct the mythology of the Wild West.
Alex Majoli, Scene #8667, London, 2017

For Alex Majoli, Photojournalism and Performance are Inseparable

The photographer’s psychological portraits cast a unifying light around the world.

Documenting the Weaponization of Water Along the U.S.-Mexico Border

In remote stretches of desert, Richard Misrach and Guillermo Galindo record traces of volunteer efforts—and attempts by Border Patrols to stop them.

The Hard Truths of Family Life

In Florida, Kathryn Harrison photographs her mother and brother with fearless intensity.

A Japanese Photographer’s Gleefully Chaotic Family Life

At home in Japan, Motoyuki Daifu captures his family with gleeful candor.

How to Make Books that Sing Like Sinatra

Keith Smith on the elaborate art of sequencing pictures.

Whatever Happened to Corporate Extravagance?

Susan Ressler revels in the immaculate offices of days gone by.

The Photobook Publisher with a Deceptively Subtle Touch

For Roma Publications, the artist’s vision is front and center.

Wanting to be Held

What can Robert Bergman teach us about the act of seeing?
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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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