Aperture

The home for words & pictures since 1952.

[Aperture @aperturefnd]

From classics to contemporary standouts, these volumes illuminate the paradoxes and possibilities of life in the United States. https://t.co/S9vaHSbhbW

[Aperture @aperturefnd]

Throughout his prolific career, the wildly inventive photographer Duane Michals showed a fascination with dreaming, desire, and fate—and embraced photography’s failures. https://t.co/Nk5IP5zRAy

[Aperture @aperturefnd]

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. https://t.co/f5xiCpcVJw

[Aperture @aperturefnd]

In a conversation from her new book “Currents,” Dionne Lee speaks about the interwoven histories of land, power, survival, and Black identity. https://t.co/Hmi6zflX5j

[Aperture @aperturefnd]

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. https://t.co/l6r9PcCYEg

[Aperture @aperturefnd]

Daniel Arnold, Sara Cwynar, Stephen Shore and others consider how Friedlander’s disorienting visions of the United States continue to endure. https://t.co/p8YrwbhCUz

[Aperture @aperturefnd]

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. https://t.co/sKWVYnfi2f

[Aperture @aperturefnd]

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. https://t.co/NTvVMUQxP8

[Aperture @aperturefnd]

Here are the shortlisted artists for the 2026 Aperture Portfolio Prize, which aims to spotlight new talent in contemporary photography. https://t.co/kIHp0zJqcX

[Aperture @aperturefnd]

In the wooded enclaves of Northern California, Michael Schmelling documents what’s left of the 1960s back-to-the-land movement. https://t.co/WHqut8G4g1

[Aperture @aperturefnd]

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. https://t.co/y1XlH9gN6D

[Aperture @aperturefnd]

In the drylands of Balochistan, the photographer Hashem Shakeri chronicles the art of everyday survival. https://t.co/WJtkx9lsMM

[Aperture @aperturefnd]

The Paris-based duo Christophe Lemaire and Sarah-Linh Tran talk about what inspires them, from August Sander to scooter riders in Hanoi. https://t.co/rCGRRzMtht

[Aperture @aperturefnd]

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: https://t.co/bZuPxCoZdh

[Aperture @aperturefnd]

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. https://t.co/tYm1Y5vBk9

[Aperture @aperturefnd]

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. https://t.co/MkBhOj833u

[Aperture @aperturefnd]

Celebrating the evolving narrative of the photobook, Aperture and @ParisPhotoFair present the winners of the 2025 PhotoBook Awards. https://t.co/dOsgmL97vt

[Aperture @aperturefnd]

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: https://t.co/7K9yH5t6DH

[Aperture @aperturefnd]

On the @NewYorker, read Doreen St. Félix’s essay on how the photographer Coreen Simpson presents the Black woman as an icon of withholding. https://t.co/OyA4VcOa4T

[Aperture @aperturefnd]

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: https://t.co/Kv6VfhTHeL