Award-winning poet Claudia Rankine reflects on the intricate drawings of Toyin Ojih Odutola.
The multidisciplinary artist investigates myths of black masculinity through costume, performance, and an iconic basketball jersey.
Sarah Lewis, Carrie Mae Weems, Chelsea Clinton, and other special guests present Aperture magazine’s landmark summer issue.
The curator of the London gallery Autograph ABP discusses the intersections between photography, human rights, and identity politics.
Catherine Gund, Shola Lynch, and Franklin Leonard discuss pioneers of cinema, African American archives, and the definitive films about black experience.
On the streets of New York, murals strike back against police brutality.
Was Richard Avedon and James Baldwin’s collaborative photobook a luxury object or a ruthless indictment of American culture?
In America’s sprawling correctional system, how do prisoners and their families represent themselves though photography?
A photographer connects leaders of the civil rights movement to the young activists working today.
The pianist and composer reflects on one of his favorite photographs and the documentation of jazz.
One year after the church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, a photographer speaks about her powerful portraits of the victims’ families.
The classical singer, composer, and performance collaborator responds to a magisterial photographic moment.
From the streets of New York and beyond, a democratic vision of humanity.
How has the death of a transgender African American teenager changed the debate around justice in the United States?
A young photographer finds inspiration in Old Masters and Afropunk.
The legendary street photographer speaks about his impulse to record African American life.
The legendary jazz trumpeter, composer, and teacher reflects on ancestry and ceremony in New Orleans.
Five voices from the fields of theater, photography, and art history to reflect on one of Carrie Mae Weems’s most iconic projects.
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.
