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Christina Fernandez’s Multifaceted Visions of Life in California

With three exhibitions and a new book, the revered photographer’s study of labor, migration, and capitalism is as vital as ever.

In Los Angeles, a Photography Project Shows the Power of Mentorship for Latinx Youth

Through classes and programming, Las Fotos has become an essential space for teens to learn the basics of photography—and develop their self-expression.

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Tim Davis on the Joys and Pitfalls of Seeing through the Camera

In a new book, the photographer reflects on the act of camera-seeing and his expansive visual poem celebrating Los Angeles.

Los Angeles without Angelenos

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

Speak Loud and Embrace the Protest

In Los Angeles, an exhibition revisits the images and struggles of the Chicano Movement.

Everything is Light

In her recent photography, Mona Kuhn evokes LA’s iconic architecture and landscapes.

Outside, Looking In

Barak Zemer pictures intimate moments of isolation in the sprawling metropolis of Los Angeles.

Disobedient Domesticity

In suburban LA, Sophie Tianxin Chen produces scenes of the mundane and perverse.

The Streets in Afterglow

Star Montana’s dreamy portraits capture the golden aura of East Los Angeles.

Guadalupe Rosales’s Archive of Chicano Life in Los Angeles

Collecting images and posting them to Instagram, the artist creates space for an alternative history of youth culture.

On the Cover: Aperture's "Los Angeles" Issue

Like any metropolis, LA is dynamic, changing, evolving, contested.

Where the Homeless Sleep

Anthony Hernandez takes a hard look at the neglected landscapes of Los Angeles.

Christina Fernandez's Lines of Sight

In two new bodies of work, the artist considers space, architecture, and the nature of collaboration.

Larry Sultan’s California Home Theater

In the Bay Area photographer’s retrospective, family, home life, and American suburbia take center stage.

Glamour and Destitution in Los Angeles

In his first museum retrospective, Anthony Hernandez finds melancholy beauty in a city of contrasts.

John Divola at his Riverside Workplace

Jonathan Griffin visits photographer John Divola in advance of three simultaneous retrospectives.

Top 5 Photo Bookstores—San Francisco and Los Angeles

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newly located in the historic Helms Bakery district, Arcana: Books…

Zoe Crosher: Stage Manager

The Los Angeles–based photographer Zoe Crosher has had quite a big year. Carmen Winant spoke with the artist about her work.

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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.