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In Public Spaces, Tender Photographs about Love and Friendship

Clifford Prince King speaks with Lyle Ashton Harris about displaying sensual images of Black queer men on bus shelters and newsstands.

Nabil Harb Seeks Mystery and Community in Central Florida

The photographer’s queer and Muslim identity gives him a distinct perspective. But, he says, “I am just as much a part of this place.”
A solarized, red and yellow toned photograph of two figures kissing

The Photographers Who Envisioned Queer History and Resistance

An exhibition showcases artists and collectives that built queer image cultures with lasting influence.
Susan Kuklin, Kachin and Michael at Michael’s Apartment, 1987

How Pictures Can Shape an Essential History of Queer Life

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.

10 Essential Stories That Illuminate Queer Lives

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.

JEB’s Pathbreaking Archive of Lesbian Photography

For years, Joan E. Biren crisscrossed the U.S. with a slide show that told an alternative history of photography with lesbians as central protagonists.

“Gay Semiotics” Revisited

Hal Fischer speaks about his seminal 1970s-era examination of the “hanky code” used to signal sexual preferences of gay men.

Rebels Without a Cause

A new photobook revisits the Swiss photographer Karlheinz Weinberger’s images of rock-and-roll boys and edgy nudes in full glory.
223, JinJing on the Couch, 2016

A Visual Record of Queer Experience in China

Lin Zhipeng, the photographer known as 223, looks for beauty, connection, and the impulse of friendship.

Mark McKnight’s Exuberant Tribute to Queer Tenderness

In the male body and the physical world, an unexpected seduction.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Camp

James Bidgood’s queer and candy-colored photographs were camp before camp was stylish.

What Does It Mean to Navigate Queer Life in Hong Kong?

Meet the winner of the 2018 Aperture Portfolio Prize.

The Spirits of Fire Island

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

The Radical Poetics of David Wojnarowicz

A preview of the Whitney Museum’s survey of the iconoclastic New York artist.

Between Dusk and Dawn

Tobias Zielony captures the colors and moods of Ukraine’s queer nightlife.

In Putin's Russia, an Island of Tolerance

Dasha Yastrebova captures a fleeting moment in Moscow’s queer underground.

The Subversive Fantasies of Ren Hang (1987–2017)

Aperture remembers the surprising, defiant work of the Chinese photographer, whose playful vision cleverly pushed the limits of self expression.

Surreal Sexuality

In his staged, gel-lit nudes, Jimmy DeSana explored the body as object.
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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.