Jo Ractliffe’s expansive new photobook demonstrates how words and pictures bring historical memory into sharp relief.
Anouchka Renaud-Eck’s vibrant photographs consider the traditions of Indian matchmaking through the lens of contemporary youth culture.
Dean Majd’s images of skaters and artists portray the joys and trials of young New Yorkers.
In tentatively optimistic images of strangers, loved ones, and golden-hued landscapes, Widline Cadet memorializes everyday moments of beauty.
At the beach, at a party, or at home, the photographer imagines a world of queer intimacy and community.
In a biennial and two recent photobooks, artists consider the postcolonial African subject through intriguingly intimate images.
Years after the South African photographer’s sister mysteriously disappeared, his images become a public record of a private myth.
Aperture’s fall issue, “Arrhythmic Mythic Ra,” refracts themes of family, social history, and the astrophysical through the eyes of guest editor Deana Lawson, one of the most compelling photographers working today.
