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Aperture’s Must-Read Photography Features of 2023

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.

What Was the NFT?

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?

How Will AI Transform Photography?

As artists experiment with this fast-evolving technology, they uncover creative opportunity, absurdity, and bias.
Ignacio Acosta, Computer Aid, 2015

What Is the Environmental Cost of Photography?

From the daguerreotype to the iPhone, “Mining Photography” explores how the exploitation of labor and the environment has always shadowed the medium’s history.

Hannah Whitaker’s Images About Technology and Anxiety at the Turn of the Millennium

In a series of photographs that conceal or duplicate human forms, Whitaker imagines how the digital revolution has fragmented everyday experience and meaning.

Are We All Cyborgs?

From biohacking to vitamins, photographer Matthieu Gafsou’s latest series questions the relationship between human bodies and technology.

Photo.edu: Toward a New Curriculum by Arthur Ou

What is photographic education today? The question elicits a wave of differing, often contesting answers.

Interview with Owen Kydd

The moment when still cameras began to include decent video options not only democratized filmmaking, but also marks the history of still images.

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Aperture 254

This spring, Aperture presents “Counter Histories,” an issue produced in collaboration with Magnum Foundation and informed by their ongoing Counter Histories grant initiative, featuring artists from around the world who tell new stories about how the past informs the present.