Matthew Leifheit

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12 Photographers on How to Survive the Lockdown

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

Delirious Cities: The 2019 Aperture Summer Open

Meet the twenty-three artists asking how photographs can define the diversity of urban experience today.

David Lebe, Angelo on the Roof

Let Us Now Praise David Lebe

A long-overdue exhibition expands the canon of gay photography.

3 Photo Editors On Why You Should Enter the Aperture Summer Open

Essential advice on submitting to Aperture’s annual open-call exhibition.

Aperture's Best Photography Features of 2018

From the photographs that inspired Sofia Coppola’s films to Zanele Muholi’s visual activism, here are this year’s highlights in photography and ideas.

The Spirits of Fire Island

Matthew Leifheit conjures history and fantasy in the fabled gay enclave.

The '90s are Back

Six artists on the photobook at the end of the millennium.

Publisher Profile

TBW Books Matthew Leifheit in conversation with Paul Schiek So often in art—as in life—the decision to…
Mark Morrisroe, Baby Steffenelli (John S.), 1985

A Chance Encounter with Mark Morrisroe

After years in a Boston attic, Mark Morrisroe’s dreamy, unpolished early work is on display in a rare exhibition in New York.

Freedom of the Night: 11 Reflections on Orlando

Following the attack on the Pulse club, artists and writers consider the nightclub as a symbolic space in queer culture.

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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.