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Highway Kind
Crossing the United States in her beat-up van, Justine Kurland pictures America’s tangled sense of itself. By David Campany Justine Kurland, Like a Black Snake, 2008 The actualities and the myths, the...
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Higher Ground
Vittorio Sella, born in the foothills of the Italian Alps, combined his passions of photography and mountaineering to capture the elevated beauty of the world’s most inhospitable places. By Alexander...
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Black Lives, Silver Screen: Ava DuVernay and Bradford Young in Conversation
As the United States navigates a political moment defined by the close of the Obama era and the rise of #BlackLivesMatter activism, in May 2016 Aperture magazine will release “Vision & Justice,” a...
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Archipelago
Across ten years, Ishikawa Naoki traveled Japan’s island chains, from the far south to the far north, depicting canted colorful scenes of everyday life and ceremonial traditions. This article is drawn...
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Vision & Justice: Guest Editor’s Note
No matter the topic—beauty, family, politics, power—the quest for a legacy of photographic representation of African Americans has been about vision and justice. By Sarah Lewis Benedict Fernandez,...
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Vision & Justice Online: She Walked in Beauty
Amid the racial tensions of the 1960s, Jet magazine captured African American life with grace and power. For an influential screenwriter, one cover was personal. By Susan Fales-Hill Cover of Jet...
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Vision & Justice Online: Ming Smith and the Kamoinge Workshop
Routinely excluded from the mainstream art world, in the 1960s, a group of African American photographers formed a collective to promote and exhibit their work. For one promising young artist, the...
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Vision & Justice: A Curriculum by Hank Willis Thomas
For Hank Willis Thomas—conceptual photographer and multimedia artist—American commerce is a perpetual source of slogans and spectacles. In his series Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate...
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Vision & Justice: Around the Kitchen Table
Carrie Mae Weems combines performance and narrative to dynamic effect. For the “Vision & Justice” issue, Aperture invited voices from the fields of theater, photography, and art history to reflect...
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Vision & Justice: Wynton Marsalis on Frank Stewart
Collectors: The Jazz Musicians For the “Vision & Justice” issue of Aperture, Wynton Marsalis, Ingrid Monson, Alicia Hall Moran, Jason Moran, and Somi reflect on photographs that represent moments...
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Vision & Justice Online: Jamel Shabazz in Conversation with Michaela Angela...
“Well before there was Kehinde Wiley, there was Jamel Shabazz and his New York street portraiture of subjects framed by regalia of their own making,” Khalil Gibran Muhammad writes of the legendary...
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Vision & Justice: Awol Erizku
A young photographer finds inspiration in Old Masters and Afropunk. By Steven Nelson Awol Erizku, Girl with a Bamboo Earring, 2009. Courtesy the artist Awol Erizku, born in Ethiopia, raised in the...
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Vision & Justice: Ingrid Monson on Roy DeCarava
Collectors: The Jazz Musicians For the “Vision & Justice” issue of Aperture, Wynton Marsalis, Ingrid Monson, Alicia Hall Moran, Jason Moran, and Somi reflect on photographs that represent moments...
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Vision & Justice Online: dream hampton in Conversation with Geena Rocero
How has the death of a transgender African American teenager changed the debate around justice in the United States? One night in fall 2011, police officers in Madison Heights, a suburb of Detroit,...
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Vision & Justice: Radcliffe Roye
From the streets of New York and beyond, a democratic vision of humanity. By Garnette Cadogan Radcliffe Roye, Ryan, 2014–16. Courtesy the artist Walking—such a mundane, commonplace act, and yet one so...
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Vision & Justice: Alicia Hall Moran on Ficre Ghebreyesus
Collectors: The Jazz Musicians For the “Vision & Justice” issue of Aperture, Wynton Marsalis, Ingrid Monson, Alicia Hall Moran, Jason Moran, and Somi reflect on photographs that represent moments...
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Vision & Justice Online: Deana Lawson and Nikki A. Greene in Conversation...
One year after the church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, Deana Lawson speaks about her powerful portraits of the victims’ families. Deana Lawson, Bethane Middleton-Brown with Gracyn, Hali,...
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Vision & Justice: Jason Moran on an Army Jazz Band
Collectors: The Jazz Musicians For the “Vision & Justice” issue of Aperture, Wynton Marsalis, Ingrid Monson, Alicia Hall Moran, Jason Moran, and Somi reflect on photographs that represent moments...
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Vision & Justice Online: Sheila Pree Bright in Conversation with Naima J. Keith
The photographer Sheila Pree Bright, a Georgia native who is currently based in Atlanta, has routinely questioned the power structures that inform representations of African American communities and...
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Vision & Justice Online: Nicole R. Fleetwood on Prison Portraits
In America’s sprawling correctional system, where more than 2.2 million people are behind bars, prison studio portraits can hold a family together. By Nicole R. Fleetwood Deana Lawson, Mohawk...
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