When Sara Abbaspour returned to Iran after working in the United States, she found a new way of photographing her home country.
Here are the shortlisted artists for Aperture’s annual award, which aims to spotlight new talent in contemporary photography.
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.