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A Look Inside the Titles Shortlisted for the 2023 PhotoBook Awards

These 35 photobooks highlight excellence in publishing across a wide range of topics and photographic styles.

How Can Photobooks Expand the Canon?

The team behind a British publisher speaks about the bookmaking process—and how a sequence of photographs can create an emotional experience.

Announcing the 2023 PhotoBook Awards Shortlist

Here are the 35 shortlisted titles for this year’s Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards, which celebrate the evolving narrative of the photobook.

Inside the New Photography Center Energizing Accra’s Art Scene

Home to a gallery and thousands of books, the Dikan Center is the latest in a growing number of creative hubs across Ghana.

La Dolce Vita According to Sam Youkilis

Drawing inspiration from Fellini and Pasolini, the photographer finds a seductive—sometimes humorous—vision of Italy.

Japan’s Unparalleled History of Photography in Print

An expansive new book shows how the magazine format was a major, genre-defining space for Japanese photographers.

5 New and Notable Photobooks

From Jamel Shabazz’s singular record of Black joy to Roe Ethridge’s monument to art and commerce, here are reviews of five recent books.
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What Is the Relationship between Literature and Photography?

An exhibition in Switzerland explores the intersection between photobook publishing and art forms that combine text and image.

The Delight and Absurdity of Domestic Photography

A trio of photobooks about domestic life reveals the home as a site of humor, performance, and self-fulfillment.

9 Inspiring Photobooks by Contemporary Women Photographers

From Justine Kurland’s imagined runaways to Wendy Red Star’s feminist, Indigenous perspective, here are essential titles by today’s leading artists.

11 Essential Photobooks for Black History Month

From monographs by Ming Smith and Deana Lawson to compendiums about activism and fashion, here are must-read books that envision Black lives.

Why Ramón Reverté Believes a Photobook Needs a Great Story

The creative director of Editorial RM has collaborated with Latin America’s most influential photographers. But what makes a photobook a work of art?

6 New and Notable Photobooks

From LaToya Ruby Frazier’s chronicle about Flint, Michigan to a survey of Nigel Shafran’s innovative fashion photography, here are reviews of six recent books.

Aperture’s 2022 Holiday Gift Guide

Legendary photographers. Iconic monographs. Thought-provoking essay books. Here is the ultimate guide to the best photobooks to give this holiday season.

8 Summer Reads from Aperture’s Editors

From a new volume on Dayanita Singh’s expansive practice to Trent Parke’s journey across north Indian countryside—we asked our editors what photobooks they’re diving into this summer.

How to Produce a Photobook

Four bookmaking experts speak about each step of the production process—from making an image sequence to finding the perfect paper, size, and design.

A Look Inside the Shortlisted Titles for the 2021 PhotoBook Awards

These 35 photobooks highlight excellence in publishing across a wide range of topics and photographic styles.

A Seven-Volume Photobook Retells the Story of an Ancient Hindu Epic


In his contemporary iteration of the Ramayana, Vasantha Yogananthan’s photographs consider memory, history, and the poetics of daily life.
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Aperture No. 261

Aperture’s issue on craft features photographers who make pictures the slow way—building camera obscuras, creating photograms, and laboring in traditional darkrooms to make handmade, unrepeatable forms.

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