Posts Tagged ‘LGBTQ’
A Visual Record of Queer Experience in China
Lin Zhipeng, the photographer known as 223, looks for beauty, connection, and the impulse of friendship.
Read MoreClifford 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.
Read MorePeter Berlin was the First “Photosexual”
Decades before Grindr, Instagram, and erotic selfies, the photographer was famous for his extreme sexual-artistic practice.
Read MoreLaura Aguilar Was a Proud Latina Lesbian, and She Flaunted It
What do the late artist’s emotional photo-text letters reveal about the craft of self-expression?
Read More13 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.
Read MoreThese Queer PhotoBooks Changed My Life
Eleven curators, writers, and artists reflect on images of queer identity past and present.
Read MoreRosalyne Blumenstein and the Art of Living
In her newest series, artist and activist Zackary Drucker pays homage to a trans icon.
Read MoreChristopher Street Revisited
In the 1970s, Sunil Gupta photographed moments of desire and liberation in New York’s gay capital.
Read MoreExtremely Loud and Incredibly Camp
James Bidgood’s queer and candy-colored photographs were camp before camp was stylish.
Read MoreLet Us Now Praise David Lebe
A long-overdue exhibition expands the canon of gay photography.
Read MoreThe Pain and Pleasure of Queer Life in Egypt
Mahmoud Khaled considers the legacy of the “Cairo 52,” the men who were arrested in 2001 at a gay-friendly nightclub.
Read More2019 Portfolio Prize Winner: Mark McKnight
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.
Read More2019 Portfolio Prize Runner-Up: Guanyu Xu
Reclaiming domestic space through installations in his parents’ home, Guanyu Xu explores queer identity and censorship across China and the US.
Read MoreWhat Does It Mean to Navigate Queer Life in Hong Kong?
Meet the winner of the 2018 Aperture Portfolio Prize.
Read MoreThe Spirits of Fire Island
Matthew Leifheit conjures history and fantasy in the fabled gay enclave.
Read MoreA Pioneer of Latinx Identity
Remembering Laura Aguilar’s unapologetically queer bodies.
Read MorePeter Hujar's Italian Reverie
From the underground art star, a delicate picture of youth.
Read MoreTrans Lives Illuminated
Since the 1970s, Mariette Pathy Allen has photographed the lives of trans and gender nonconforming people around the world.
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