A look inside the inaugural installation at Aperture’s new space on the Upper West Side.

The photographer considers Walker Evans’s search for truth beneath the surface of the mundane.

While playing bass for Hole, Melissa Auf der Maur created a searing record of life on tour in an offline world.

The new home for photography, now open to the public as of September 18

Stella Betts and David Leven of the architecture practice LEVENBETTS share details of the new space—from embracing the building’s history to coining “Aperture Gray.”

Hiroshi Sugimoto has photographed the dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History since 1975. Now his series is coming to a close. Did he find what he was looking for?

The season’s photography standouts traverse ’90s fashion, New York street life, and government intrigue.

This fall, Aperture’s bookstore and gallery will host artist talks, panel discussions, and book celebrations with Gillian Laub, Elle Pérez, Stephen Shore, and Coreen Simpson.

In Mexico and New York, Luis Manuel Diaz takes the drama and beauty of Catholic religious painting and applies it to everyday life.

As guest editor of _Aperture_ ’s fall issue, Sugimoto traces his obsessions—from the nature of seeing to humanity’s quest for immortality.

Rather than simply documenting reality, photographers at this summer’s Arles Festival negotiate memory and challenge dominant narratives.

Students often imagine that a career in art can be sustained by inspiration alone. But endurance, structure, and collaboration are equally essential.

For ten years, Ishikawa Naoki traveled among the country's numerous islands, documenting scenes of everyday life and ceremonial traditions found on the margins.

Clark’s legendary photobook may seem like a timeless portrait of youth and addiction, but its images emerged from failed policies that still haunt Tulsa today.

In the 1970s, Minor White, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan wrested photography into a deeply personal medium, using the camera to explore emotion and the possibility of transcendence.

Ricardo Alcaraz has spent five decades documenting the island's movements for labor rights, land, and independence.

In the early 2000s, John Divola photographed the soundstages of the classic sci-fi show, revealing a world suspended between illusion and apparatus.

With its first permanent exhibition center, Cincinnati’s FotoFocus cements its standing at the forefront of lens-based art.

With his newly reissued _Cape Light_ , Meyerowitz helped establish color photography as fine art, imbuing small-town life with luminous beauty.

From classics to contemporary standouts, these volumes illuminate the paradoxes and possibilities of life in the United States.

Beyond her innovations in Surrealist dress, Elsa Schiaparelli was perhaps the first designer to fully grasp how the camera could extend and refine the visual language of couture.

The thousands of amateur photographs in the Beijing Silvermine archive trace daily life in China before the ascendance of social media.

The photographer and educator has spent his career asserting Indigenous presence in the American landscape.

Claudio Mansour and Enrique Garcia’s recent photography-based shows dramatized the endurance of sex and exhaustion, exercise and caffeine.

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.

From high fashion to high-speed photography—and everything in between—here are the season’s must-see shows.

The mythic photographer’s globally touring retrospective has a long-awaited presentation in Kyoto.

_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.

Our executive director looks ahead to the opening of Aperture’s permanent space at 380 Columbus Avenue, a place to gather, share ideas, and engage with photography.

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

The Swiss photographer’s pictures of youth, sex, and other delights exult in a hedonism haunted by the transience of life.

Schneider’s dazzling contribution to the 2026 Venice Biennale transforms a fleeting moment from a Chris Marker film into a monumental installation.

Following a multiyear and multimillion-dollar expansion, the New Museum in New York reopened this spring with the ambitious exhibition New Humans: Memories of the Future (2026). The show, debuting the museum’s much-improved exhibition spaces and curated by a team led by artistic director Massimiliano Gioni, is jam-packed with canonical masterpieces and intriguing artifacts from the…

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.

Years after retiring from an illustrious career as a stylist, Simon Foxton was lured back into image-making by fresh new faces. The only catch is, they don’t exist.

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

Emanuele Satolli speaks about documenting conflict zones in Ukraine and the Middle East—and why it’s essential to see difficult images in a photobook.

The twentieth FotoFest Biennial charts a sprawling history of global photography.

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.

In the wake of her father’s death, Olivia Crumm explores how loss bends everyday reality into something strange and new.

Victor Llorente documents the folkloric costumes and traditional dances of the carnival group Los Andulleros de Santiago.

Megha Singha’s portraits of young women explore the forces that shape desire and online fame, playfully blurring the line between art and content.

Farren van Wyk navigates emotional states of belonging between South African culture and European roots.

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

In Paris, an exhibition considers issues of identity, belonging, and political upheaval—and highlights experiments in hybrid forms of image-making.