From photographs of same-sex weddings to HIV/AIDS caretakers, Stephen Vider’s new book shows how queer people redefined gender roles, domestic space, and the politics of intimacy in the twentieth century.
Gupta has spent his career photographing queer subjects in India—and inspired a new generation to insist on making confident, unflinching work.
From JEB’s pathbreaking archive of lesbian photography to Ren Hang’s subversive fantasies, we look back at must-read articles from Aperture’s archive.
The Memphis-born photographer navigates performative intimacy, the legacy of the Mississippi Delta Chinese, and the pitfalls of visual language for queer Asian men.
James Bidgood’s queer and candy-colored photographs were camp before camp was stylish.
Mahmoud Khaled considers the legacy of the “Cairo 52,” the men who were arrested in 2001 at a gay-friendly nightclub.
Remembering Laura Aguilar’s unapologetically queer bodies.
How can photography transform representations of non-binary and transgender bodies?
In her first retrospective, Lola Flash celebrates queer legacies through vibrant portraiture.
Lyle Ashton Harris’s archive offers a glimpse of a queer, black ’90s.
With a rush of color, David Benjamin Sherry’s new photograms gesture to abstract painting and gay history.
Eric Gyamfi reflects on his activism, photography, and telling the stories of West Africa’s queer communities.
Aperture remembers the surprising, defiant work of the Chinese photographer, whose playful vision cleverly pushed the limits of self expression.
The four artists in Torrent Tea are redefining narratives of Black and Queer bodies on the Internet.
In his staged, gel-lit nudes, Jimmy DeSana explored the body as object.
A recent forum at MoMA reveals a rich, often-overlooked thread of queer history and photography.
In a new exhibition, the celebrated filmmaker returns to his pioneering work about queer black identity.
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.
