Working with vintage gay erotica, Pacifico Silano is committed to understanding how trauma and queer identity commingle.
In the 1970s, Sunil Gupta photographed moments of desire and liberation in New York’s gay capital.
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.