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A Photographer’s Visual Poem about Solidarity and Protest

Yu-Chen Chiu examines collective experiences in the United States and the ways that historical narratives shape our future.

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Gus Aronson’s Tokens of New York in the Age of Isolation

In a new series made in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx, the photographer searches for signs that could be taken for wonders.

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To Make Their Own Way in the World: A Note from the Peabody Museum’s Director

How a new interdisciplinary book about the Zealy daguerreotypes can expand critical thinking about photography, museums, and the legacy of slavery.

Joel Meyerowitz Tells the Story Behind Three Photographs from His Archive

Aperture and Joel Meyerowitz launch a special ten-day print sale, featuring three 5-by-7-inch prints signed by the artist.

Justine Kurland Reflects on Her Photographs of Teenage Girl Runaways

Between 1997 and 2002, the photographer portrayed teenage girls as rebels, offering a radical vision of community against the masculine myth of the American landscape.

A Visual Record of Queer Experience in China

Lin Zhipeng, the photographer known as 223, looks for beauty, connection, and the impulse of friendship.

What the Photo Critic Vince Aletti Found at Home during Quarantine

What does an insatiable collector do when all of New York’s bookstores and markets are closed?

A Young Photographer’s Public Diary of Private Details

In scenes of striking intimacy, Abdul Kircher searches for the brutal and the tender.

Clifford Prince King’s Intimate Photographs of Black Queer Men

Creating tender scenes with friends and lovers, the LA-based artist offers a stirring vision of everyday ritual.

Announcing the 2020 Aperture Summer Open Artists

At a moment when ideas about truth have been disrupted, these artists consider how photography portrays our experiences of technology, politics, and the social landscape.

12 Photographers on How to Survive the Lockdown

From Brooklyn to Bangladesh, what to read, watch, and listen to—and why to keep going.

Is the Still Life the Form of the Moment?

Six photography curators consider images that have new resonance in the era of social distancing.

Los Angeles without Angelenos

Taken during shelter-in-place orders, Pascal Shirley’s aerial pictures of LA are full of poetic foreboding.

5 Depression-Era Photographs That Galvanized Social Change

From Dorothea Lange to Walker Evans, the FSA photographers of the 1930s shaped a vision of the world transformed by economic crisis.

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The Photographer’s Playlist

Nan Goldin, Alec Soth, Jamel Shabazz, and others share the music that comforts, inspires, or makes them move.

Announcing the 2020 Aperture Portfolio Prize Shortlist

From over 900 submissions, meet our five shortlisted artists.

How John Baldessari Threw Three Balls in a Straight Line

The making of a now-famous series of photographs.

Aperture's Best Photography Features of 2019

Wolfgang Tillmans, Tilda Swinton, Graciela Iturbide, and more—this year’s highlights in photography and ideas.
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