Khader’s photographs of people in conflict zones across the Middle East document violence and grief alongside moments of tenderness and reprieve.
Sara Kontar left Damascus in 2015 and, like many Syrians fleeing an intractable war, began a new life in France. For her, the camera became a means of processing displacement and nourishing community.
Aperture aggregates the photography blogosphere’s most trending stories from the week of January 31, 2014.
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.