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Throughout his prolific career, the wildly inventive photographer Duane Michals showed a fascination with dreaming, desire, and fate—and embraced photography’s failures. aperture.org/editorial/duane…
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Executive Director Sarah Meister looks ahead to the opening of Aperture’s permanent space at 380 Columbus Avenue, a place to gather, share ideas, and engage with photography. aperture.org/editorial/apert…
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May 12
In a conversation from her new book “Currents,” Dionne Lee speaks about the interwoven histories of land, power, survival, and Black identity. aperture.org/editorial/dionn…
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Apr 23
Winner of the 2026 Aperture Portfolio Prize, the photographer Aaryan Sinha twists familiar clichés into an exploration of what it means to feel estranged from one’s homeland. aperture.org/editorial/aarya…
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Apr 12
Daniel Arnold, Sara Cwynar, Stephen Shore and others consider how Friedlander’s disorienting visions of the United States continue to endure. aperture.org/editorial/6-pho…
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Apr 7
In Tamil Nadu, Gayatri Ganju photographed the Indigenous Kurumba people and listened to their stories—and was allowed to take one out into the world. aperture.org/editorial/a-sac…
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Mar 30
For over fifty years, Graciela Iturbide has brought a poetic and deeply human vision to her photographs of Mexico and beyond.
“Graciela Iturbide: Photographs from Colecciones Fundación Mapfre” is on view at @SDMA through June 7. sdmart.org/exhibition/gracie…
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Mar 24
Here are the shortlisted artists for the 2026 Aperture Portfolio Prize, which aims to spotlight new talent in contemporary photography. aperture.org/editorial/annou…
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In the wooded enclaves of Northern California, Michael Schmelling documents what’s left of the 1960s back-to-the-land movement. aperture.org/editorial/the-r…
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Mar 19
The Italian photographer and Renaissance man Guido Guidi channels his training as an architect, painter, and draughtsman into quiet studies of European towns and landscapes. aperture.org/editorial/the-w…
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Mar 14
In the drylands of Balochistan, the photographer Hashem Shakeri chronicles the art of everyday survival. aperture.org/editorial/hashe…
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Mar 3
The Paris-based duo Christophe Lemaire and Sarah-Linh Tran talk about what inspires them, from August Sander to scooter riders in Hanoi. aperture.org/editorial/lemai…
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Mar 2
The exhibition “Persona: Photography and the Re-Imagined Self” gathers historical and contemporary images by artists from across the globe who engage with a character, an icon, an avatar—a persona.
On view at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum through 5/10: go.gardnermuseum.org/4c53ME7
ALT Claude Cahun, I am in training don't kiss me, 1927. Courtesy of the Jersey Heritage Collections
ALT Samuel Fosso, Self-Portrait (Malcolm X) from African Spirits series, 2008 © Samuel Fosso. Courtesy of the artist and Yossi Milo, New York
ALT Yasumasa Morimura, An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo (Skull Ring), 2001 © Yasumasa Morimura; Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York
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Mar 1
A new book of essays by a crucial figure of Japan’s Provoke movement shows how Takuma Nakahira relentlessly interrogated photography’s relationship to power. aperture.org/editorial/takum…
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18 Dec 2025
Diane Arbus’s darkroom, the legacy of David Lynch, photography’s outsized influence on painting, and a kaleidoscopic portrait of Seoul—here are this year’s highlights in photography and ideas. aperture.org/editorial/apert…
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14 Nov 2025
Celebrating the evolving narrative of the photobook, Aperture and @ParisPhotoFair present the winners of the 2025 PhotoBook Awards. aperture.org/editorial/annou…
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17 Oct 2025
The Leitz Photographica Auction, “Motion,” celebrates photography as a medium of progress, featuring works by artists including August Sander, Nan Goldin, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and more.
Opens October 30 at the Leica Gallery Vienna. See the full catalogue at: ow.ly/SVxN50Xeq0j
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14 Oct 2025
On the @NewYorker, read Doreen St. Félix’s essay on how the photographer Coreen Simpson presents the Black woman as an icon of withholding. newyorker.com/culture/photo-…
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10 Oct 2025
The exhibition “Shifting Visions: Photographs from the Collection of Ken and Jacki Widder” presents a microcosm of major crosscurrents in mid-twentieth-century American and European photography.
On view at The San Diego Museum of Art: ow.ly/LXXK50Xa0gy
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2 Oct 2025
Here are the 37 shortlisted titles for the Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards, which celebrate this year’s achievements by publishers and artists. aperture.org/editorial/annou…
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