Over the last decade, as artists have turned to the genre of the family portrait, they reflect our ever-expansive notions of belonging.
By showing Black life as leisure, repose, and outdoor play, Mitchell expands our visual vocabulary of race and space.
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.