Series: Aperture Magazine

Exploring fashion and style as a political language and tool of resistance in the African diaspora. Aperture's Summer issue highlights image makers around the world who are exploring style and fashion as a language of Black resistance, refusal, and joy. Guest edited by the writer and researcher Tanisha C. Ford and titled after her 2015 book, Liberated Threads, this edition...

This issue, the latest in Aperture's series focusing on photography scenes in different international cities, looks at the dynamic South Korean capital, now at the centre of contemporary art and culture. Aperture No. 260 explores how photographers have chronicled and participated in the countless transformations of Seoul, a megacity defined by millennia of tradition and a future still being written....

The Ballads issue of Aperture magazine is organized around the themes contained within the original ballad—intimacy, friendship, community, love, sex, trauma, music—while also honouring the urgent role of the artist as a force for cultural and social change. Few works have impacted the world of photography like Nan Goldin's The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. Published by Aperture in 1986, The...

This fall, following acclaimed issues centred on Delhi, Mexico City, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and São Paulo, Aperture magazine presents Accra, an edition that considers the Ghanaian capital as a site of dynamic photographic voices and histories that connect visual culture in West Africa to the world. Accra is guest edited by the New York-based artist Lyle Ashton Harris and the...

For the summer 2019 issue of Aperture, Swinton, as guest-editor, draws upon the central themes of Orlando—gender fluidity, consciousness without limits, and the deep perspective of a long life—to offer a collection of images and writings that celebrate openness, curiosity, and human possibility. Virginia Woolf's prescient 1928 novel Orlando tells the story of a young nobleman who, during the era...

Aperture regularly invites guest editors to collaborate on issues where their unique perspectives and exciting networks of artists and writers expand and enhance specific themes. This issue will be guest edited by the leading artist and educator Deana Lawson, touching upon themes of the familial, astrophysical, and social, and their relationships to photography. Arrhythmic Mythic Ra explores these multifaceted concepts...

This summer, Aperture presents a special issue focused on the relationship between photography, urbanism, and activist trajectories from Delhi. Guest edited by Rahaab Allana, the Alkazi Foundation's lead curator, the issue explores multiple incarnations of the city's photographic culture, from O. P. Sharma's experimental works from the 1960s to Aditi Jain's intimate tableaux of Delhi's trans community today. Interviews with...

This summer, Aperture magazine presents Being & Becoming: Asian in America, a landmark issue that considers how artists use the medium of photography to grapple with questions of visibility, belonging, and what it means to be Asian American. Spanning photography from the nineteenth century to the present, and featuring the work of acclaimed figures such as An-My Le and Reagan...

This fall, Aperture magazine presents an issue exploring the idea of cosmologies—the origins, histories, and local universes that artists create for themselves. In an exclusive interview, Greg Tate speaks to Deana Lawson about how her monumental staged portraits trace cosmologies of the African diaspora. "What I'm doing integrates mythology, religion, empirical data, dreams," says Lawson, whose work is the subject...

Aperture magazine releases winter issue, Desire, featuring an expansive interview with renowned fashion photographer Juergen Teller. 'Photographs can abet desire in the most direct, utilitarian way,' Susan Sontag observed. Hers was a reference to more prurient activities, but she also allowed that desire could be abstract, something more slippery. The compulsion to want - or, in today's parlance, to manifest...

Aperture introduces a new look for the magazine with The Design Issue, featuring previously unpublished images by Luigi Ghirri, a profile of the artist and jewellery designer Coreen Simpson, interviews with the celebrated fashion designer Duro Olowu and the design writer Alice Rawsthorn, and dynamic portfolios that speak to the myriad ways in which the fields of photography and design...

Guest edited by the acclaimed photographer Alec Soth, Aperture's summer issue explores the dimensions and possibilities of dreams, journeys, and chance in photography. Sleepwalking covers a surprising array of images and stories from the Soviet-era Czech artist Emila Medov to Sophie Calle's discovery of an abandoned Parisian hotel to Soth's own photographs from his travels in the United States. In...

This winter, in the wake of a pandemic, global protest movements, and a dramatic presidential election in the United States, Aperture releases Utopia, an issue that shows that other ways of living are possible when the collective will exists. In Utopia, artists, photographers, and writers envision a world without prisons, document visionary architecture, honour queer space and creativity, and dream...

This issue of Aperture considers the natural world in the age of climate change, extreme weather, and dramatically politicised landscapes. Aperture 234: Earth focuses on our relationship with the natural world, during a moment of continued debate about global warming and extreme weather. The vulnerability of our natural environment is underscored each day. As we enter the anthropocene, the term...

Aperture issue 229 will explore photography as it relates to transgender lives, histories, and communities. Guest edited by Zackary Drucker, the artist, activist, and producer of the television series Transparent, the issue will feature archival work and new photography by leading contemporary photographers.

Marking the one-year anniversary of New York's shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Aperture magazine's New York issue honours the city through photographs and essays by visionary artists and writers, from Roe Ethridge and Rosalind Fox Solomon to Hilton Als and Joseph O'Neill. In New York, acclaimed photojournalist Philip Montgomery speaks with the New York Times Magazine's director of photography,...

In relationships and communities, an expanding vision of what families can be. Family considers how artists and photographers have chronicled their relationships to their families and chosen communities. Aperture magazine is an essential guide to the art and phenomenon of photography, combining the smartest writing with beautifully reproduced portfolios. Published quarterly, each issue focuses on a major theme in contemporary...

A detailed look at the dynamic spaces that have shaped conversations about photography in Africa for the last twenty-five years—the biennials, experimental art spaces, and educational workshops in which artists and audiences interact with photography. Platform Africa: Aperture 227 presents a new generation of powerful artists and is produced in collaboration with guest editors Bisi Silva, Founder and Artistic Director...