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Akinbode Akinbiyi, Victoria Island, Lagos, 2006

At Documenta, Blurred Lines Between Art and Politics

An ambitious exhibition grapples with the conditions of our time — but can images provoke social change?

A Readymade World in the Heart of the Country

In a studio outside of Cape Town, photographer Nico Krijno refashions sculpture and performance.

John Divola's Upside Down Formalism

With dark humor, the photographer plays with perception, space, and surface.

All That Paradise Allows

In Crimea and the Caribbean, Nicholas Muellner’s new photobook is a tropical gothic of seduction and violence.

In Cameroon, A New Platform for Emerging Photographers

AMET (Elsa M’bala) speaks with Christine Eyene and Landry Mbassi about YaPhoto.

Does the Venice Biennale Have a Problem with Photography?

At the world’s most prestigious contemporary art exhibition, photographers are on the margins.

Raw Land

How are artists rethinking documentary in North Africa?

In Praise of the Absurd

In Panama City, five photographic projects tackle the contradictions of urban life.

Délio Jasse’s Endless Archive

Looking to vintage photos and alternative processes, an Angolan Portuguese artist engages the infinite possibilities of an image.

Queering “Straight” Photography 

With a rush of color, David Benjamin Sherry’s new photograms gesture to abstract painting and gay history.

Malala Andrialavidrazana Redraws the Map

In photographs and photomontages, the Madagascar-born artist considers the global reverberations of African culture.

Tracey Moffatt Imagines an Uncertain Future

In her solo exhibition at the Venice Biennale, the Australian photographer spins stories of displacement.

A Short History of the African Photobook

For Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, publisher of Fourthwall Books, the photobook is a space for political and social history.

Learning From Addis Ababa

Aida Muluneh, founder of the Addis Foto Fest, speaks about how education plays a central role in connecting African photographers.

You Must Live and Look

In an interview from 1973, Henri Cartier-Bresson spoke frankly about the early days of Magnum.

Through the Lens

In Bamako, a group of young photographers engage a changing city.

Between Two Worlds

In poetic, politically charged images and videos, Zineb Sedira confronts the recent history of North Africa.
Sam Contis, Hold Down, 2014

Photographing the Body Electric

Sam Contis’s first photobook revels in the land, skin, and mythologies of the American West.
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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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