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Clifford Prince King’s Intimate Photographs of Black Queer Men

Creating tender scenes with friends and lovers, the LA-based artist offers a stirring vision of everyday ritual.

The Original Ballad

How did Nan Goldin’s slideshow with hundreds of images, presented at bars and nightclubs, become an iconic photobook?

Why Photo Editors Need to Hire Black Photographers Every Day

And not only during a crisis.

George Floyd, Gordon Parks, and the Ominous Power of Photographs

From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter, can images help fight injustice?

Mikael Owunna’s Photographs Show the Essence of Black Healing

In his glittering portraits, the artist is building an alternate world.

Announcing the 2020 Aperture Summer Open Artists

At a moment when ideas about truth have been disrupted, these artists consider how photography portrays our experiences of technology, politics, and the social landscape.

A Dark and Lyrical Vision of Latin America

Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo’s photographs reflect the ambiguities of political violence in Colombia, Cuba, and Venezuela.

On the Cover: Aperture's “Ballads” Issue

How Goldin’s iconic slideshow and book became an enduring model for photographers across ages and around the world.

12 Photographers on How to Survive the Lockdown

From Brooklyn to Bangladesh, what to read, watch, and listen to—and why to keep going.

Is the Still Life the Form of the Moment?

Six photography curators consider images that have new resonance in the era of social distancing.

Los Angeles without Angelenos

Taken during shelter-in-place orders, Pascal Shirley’s aerial pictures of LA are full of poetic foreboding.

Dress for What Job?

As millions file for unemployment, a large-scale exhibition explores the meanings of workwear.

Introducing: Natalie Keyssar

In Venezuela, a photographer finds spontaneous grief and joy in everyday life.

How Should a Mother Be?

Charlie Engman’s portraits of his mother are an intimate—and provocative—exchange of mind, body, and spirit.

5 Depression-Era Photographs That Galvanized Social Change

From Dorothea Lange to Walker Evans, the FSA photographers of the 1930s shaped a vision of the world transformed by economic crisis.

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In a World of Loneliness, One Photographer's Search for Community

Eli Durst speaks about team-building exercises, suburban Americana, and why his photographs resist interpretation.

What Is Street Photography without Street Life?

In the age of pandemic, the romance of the empty street becomes the terror of absence.

Luigi Ghirri and the Indefinable

Relating real copies of urban landscapes to real human beings, Ghirri’s photographs always produced an element of surprise.
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Aperture 254

This spring, Aperture presents “Counter Histories,” an issue produced in collaboration with Magnum Foundation and informed by their ongoing Counter Histories grant initiative, featuring artists from around the world who tell new stories about how the past informs the present.