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Aperture Celebrates 2025 Gala

The celebration on October 29 benefited Aperture’s photography publishing program, in anticipation of new home in New York City, with over $1 million raised.

Aperture Announces Free Publication for Historic Convening at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute

Download the curriculum, including thirty-one texts on topics ranging from civic space and memorials to the intersections of race, technology, and justice.

Truth and Reconciliation

What does it mean to confront the history of racial violence in the United States? In a wide-ranging conversation, Bryan Stevenson and Sarah Lewis discuss images, power, and justice.

Framing Justice

How do photographs tell the story of citizenship in the United States?

Art and Activism in a Contested Democracy

Five reflections on the relationship between photography, citizenship, and the law.

In California, Trees as Witness and Living Memorial

Elizabeth Huber reflects on Ken Gonzales-Day and the history of lynching in California.

Envisioning the Right to Vote

How do Bruce Davidson’s photographs of the Selma march in 1965 find their echo in the modern debate over voter ID laws?

Vision & Justice: Guest Editor’s Note

No matter the topic—beauty, family, politics, power—the quest for a legacy of photographic representation of African Americans has been about vision and justice.

Love Visual: A Conversation with Haile Gerima

As a preview of the upcoming Summer issue, Sarah Lewis and Dagmawi Woubshet speak with a visionary filmmaker who explores African and African American narratives.

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Aperture Magazine No. 261, “The Craft Issue” Cover
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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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