From Juergen Teller and Mary Manning to the debates around AI’s influence on image-making, here are this year’s highlights in photography and ideas.
When cryptocurrency was on the rise, entrepreneurial artists and prominent photographers rushed to release NFTs. But is the NFT actually a medium—or merely a medium of exchange?
As artists experiment with this fast-evolving technology, they uncover creative opportunity, absurdity, and bias.
From the daguerreotype to the iPhone, “Mining Photography” explores how the exploitation of labor and the environment has always shadowed the medium’s history.
In a series of photographs that conceal or duplicate human forms, Whitaker imagines how the digital revolution has fragmented everyday experience and meaning.
From biohacking to vitamins, photographer Matthieu Gafsou’s latest series questions the relationship between human bodies and technology.
What is photographic education today? The question elicits a wave of differing, often contesting answers.
The moment when still cameras began to include decent video options not only democratized filmmaking, but also marks the history of still images.
Aperture’s fall issue, “Arrhythmic Mythic Ra,” refracts themes of family, social history, and the astrophysical through the eyes of guest editor Deana Lawson, one of the most compelling photographers working today.
