With his distinct theatricality and closely guarded process, the photographer conjures his own private world. It’s become a public obsession.

For more than half a century, the legendary Japanese photographer has explored how time etches its mark on everyday objects and surfaces.

_Aperture_ ’s summer issue exposes a world of conspiracy, private eyes, voyeurs, hidden histories, and nested realities.

The wildly inventive photographer on his prescient career, his fascination with dreaming, and how he embraced photography’s failures.

Alix Cléo Roubaud’s extraordinary darkroom visions, cut short at age thirty-one, are only now coming to light.

In a new photo essay, Rahim Fortune responds to the legacy of Black photographers who documented Texas throughout the twentieth century.

In a conversation from her new book, the artist speaks about the interwoven histories of land, power, survival, and Black identity.

Since the 1990s, Homma has chronicled the vagaries of fashion and youth culture, suburban life, ocean waves, and radioactive mushrooms, amassing more than sixty publications.

The Brazilian photographer makes a utopian world encompassing moments of raw, unmediated freedom.

Kawauchi takes the smallest moments and finds in them a universe, passing her unwavering attention on to us.

Winner of the 2026 Aperture Portfolio Prize, the photographer twists familiar clichés into an exploration of what it means to feel estranged from one’s homeland.

The young artist has photographed Teyana Taylor and worked with Nike, all while pursuing a vibrant style shaped by growing up in New York.

For decades, Louis Mendes and his press camera have been a staple of the city’s street life.

How do Friedlander’s disorienting visions of the United States continue to endure and delight?

The artist has squatted in an abandoned Parisian hotel, worked as a nosy chambermaid, and followed an unsuspecting stranger across Venice—all to create uncanny works with the pulse of detective stories.

The artist reflects on how ideas of history, identity, and power have always informed her acclaimed photography.

In Tamil Nadu, Gayatri Ganju photographed the Indigenous Kurumba people and listened to their stories—and was allowed to take one out into to the world.

Here are the shortlisted artists for Aperture’s annual award, which aims to spotlight new talent in contemporary photography.

In the wooded enclaves of Northern California, Michael Schmelling documents what’s left of the 1960s back-to-the-land movement.

In the drylands of Balochistan, a photographer chronicles the art of everyday survival.

The Italian photographer and Renaissance man channels his training as an architect, painter, and draughtsman into quiet studies of European towns and landscapes.

The Paris-based duo talks about what inspires them, from August Sander to scooter riders in Hanoi.

A new book of essays by a crucial figure of Japan’s Provoke movement shows how Nakahira relentlessly interrogated photography’s relationship to power.

Blending fashion and art, Sophia El Bahja’s photographs showcase the diversity of Morocco.