Paris Photo and Aperture are pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2026 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards—an annual celebration of the photobook’s enduring role within the narrative of ...

For nearly seventy years, Lee and Maria Friedlander have shared a bond shaped—and at times distorted—by photography. Aperture is a nonprofit publisher dedicated to creating insight, community, and ...

It all began with the high heels. In 1976, as a precocious teenager, Samuel Fosso traveled from Bangui, Central African Republic, where he operated his own photography business called Studio Photo ...

July has a knack for spinning an otherwise forgettable encounter into a beguiling narrative—visual, literary, or cinematic. At age seventeen, she staged a performance at a Berkeley, California, punk ...

New York, October 8, 2026—Paris Photo and Aperture are pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2026 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards—an annual celebration of the photobook’s enduring role ...

In a 1978 film called Lynn Turning into Roberta, the artist Lynn Hershman Leeson applies makeup to her face, sets a wig on her head, and gradually eases into the role of her fictitious persona and ...

“I’m tired of either/or,” says Theaster Gates. Artist, urban planner, activist, potter, archivist, gospel singer, and much else—the eminent Chicagoan has spent his career embodying the possibilities ...

New York, October 6, 2026—Today, Aperture releases Tina Barney: Fashion, the first book dedicated to Tina Barney’s life and work in fashion photography. Concurrently with the release of the monograph, ...

Please join us at Aperture’s new home for a special conversation between photographer Stephen Shore and Lucy Gallun, Curator in the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. To ...

Many of Tania Franco Klein’s photographs depict female figures who seem lost in the vastness of an inhospitable landscape or in a moment of contemplation, the edges of the self contained within those ...

Anna Atkins’s book Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions (1843–53) has long been, to photographers, a highlight of the New York Public Library collection, and perhaps even a subtle ...

In Pictures for Charis, Kelli Connell takes inspiration from the life of Charis Wilson and her collaborations with Edward Weston through the contemporary lens of a queer woman artist. Throughout the ...