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A Secret Cache of Polaroids Reveals a Trans Photographer’s Inner World

April Dawn Alison made thousands of pictures focusing on a single subject—herself. But, who was she?

Trans Lives Illuminated

Since the 1970s, Mariette Pathy Allen has photographed the lives of trans and gender nonconforming people around the world.

Beyond Binary

What does photography offer the trans feminism movement?

The Archipelago of Desire

In Cape Verde, a Portuguese photographer documents the trans community with candid intimacy.

Living, Inventing, Becoming

In a pioneering new book, Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst document their gender transitions and their lives together.

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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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