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Announcing ... "Elle Pérez: Devotions," a new photobook from Aperture that opens onto a world of trust and vulnerability through Elle's collages, writing, research, and of course their brilliant portraiture.
Elle and I first worked together exactly ten years ago on a portfolio for Aperture's "On Feminism" issue and later on Tilda's "Orlando" project. Since then, I've been in awe of Elle's ascent—PS1, The Whitney, Venice, prizes, teaching, speaking, and finally working over the last year on this special book.
Which was designed by Grégoire Pujade-Lauraine and includes an essay by Dean Daderko, who writes about Elle's collages and their place within recent photo history, and a remarkable profile by Sylvie McNamara, who tells us about Elle's "relentless desire."
Not every artist invites you into the studio and then lets you publish their studies and notes and research as artworks in their own right—but Elle has, and if you like Peter Hujar, A Little Life, Papi Juice, and ancient sculpture, then you're in for a treat.
Thank you and congratulations, @elleperex 🤍
Photographs by Elle: Ascension (Fire Island), 2019/2021; José Gabriel, 2017/18; untitled (junior), 2014/2018
03 Sep 2026
Since April 2019, @cassidypaul_ and I and several of the other editors at @aperturefnd have produced "Introducing," a series of profiles about exciting new voices in photography. Many of the artists have continued to contribute to Aperture magazine and the books program—and have also brought a lot of wonderful energy and ideas to the photo community. Here are a few highlights ... more to come this season.
Images by:
Sander Coers, Adam Rouhana, Natalie Keyssar, Massao Mascaro, Steven Molina Contreras, Devashish Gaur, Thero Makepe, Cansu Yıldıran, Ibrahim Ahmed, Muge, Lindokuhle Sobekwa, David Gilbert, Sophia El Bahja, Ashley Markle, Charles Thiefaine, Juan Orrantia, Laryssa Machada, and Dean Majd
02 Apr 2026
Super excited about Alejandro Cartagena’s new Aperture book “Ground Rules,” a bilingual mid-career survey by one of the most innovative and prolific photographers working in Latin America today.
"Ground Rules" is published on the occasion of Ale’s major solo exhibition opening at SFMOMA on November 22, 2025. I’ve been a superfan of Ale for more than a decade and this project has been a DREAM. 💖 Ale is one of the only photographers whose work covering the stories of the US-Mexico border has also traced photography's transformations in the twenty-first century, from lyric documentary series and archival collages to NFTs and AI-generated imagery. He’s also a formidable publisher and editor, as you’ll see in Ricardo Báez's genius design, which spotlights Ale's numerous artist books and editorial collaborations.
Congratulations to the exhibition's curator Shana Lopes, the translators Elianna Kan and Daniel Saldaña París, and the contributors Tatiana Bilbao, Álvaro Enrigue, Horacio Fernández, and Charlotte Kent.
¡Y muchas gracias, Ale! You are one of my ALL-TIME favorites and I'm so proud of you. 💫
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24 Oct 2025
Announcing “Tyler Mitchell: Wish This Was Real,” a new Aperture book nearly seven years in the making.
“Wish This Was Real” coincides with Tyler’s solo exhibition organized by @coberlin and opening (final venue!) on October 15, 2025 at @mep.paris. Designed by the brilliant Duncan Whyte, the book opens with a foreword by Anna Wintour and features texts by Sophie Cavoulacos, Rashid Johnson, Robin Coste Lewis, Sarah Lewis, Drew Sawyer, Rachel Tashjian, and Salamishah Tillet—and it's also available en français from @atelier_exb
Herewith, a Tyler Mitchell highlights reel, 2018–the present, with cameos by @sirsargent and @debwillisphoto, who have always been major inspirations.
Thanks to the museums who supported this project in Berlin, Helsinki, Lausanne, and Paris, and to Alexander Dorr and Noa Lin. And most of all thanks to Tyler … this collaboration has been absolutely everything. 💙
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03 Sep 2025
I'm overwhelmed by the immense generosity of the many artists, photographers, writers, editors, scholars, and curators that @thesarahmeister and I met recently in India, over the course of programs organized by @experimenterkol, @offset_projects, and @photosouthasia.
In Calcutta ~ Delhi ~ Bombay, thanks especially to @dayanitasingh, @anshikavarma, @srinivaskuruganti, @varunnyr, @bharatsikkastudio, @ronnysen, @rattanamol, @kaamnap, @ashishisshah, @raw_mango, and @vasant.nayak.2020
04 Aug 2025
I recently interviewed Cindy Sherman for @tmagazine. Cindy told me about shopping at the Paris flea market, selling one of her "Untitled Film Stills" for $45, and discovering another photographer named Cindy Sherman, who used to have a studio in Boise, Idaho. I also had the delightful opportunity to watch Cindy being photographed by Emiliano Granado at her studio downtown. When Emiliano asked Cindy if she wanted to pose as "herself," the question—for the preeminent self-portrait artist—seemed like a metaphysical one. “It’s hard being yourself,” she said. “It’s much easier being someone else.”
Photography by @quesofrito
And thanks to the brilliant editor @nicole_akosua
03 Jul 2025
Rosalind Fox Solomon's New York pictures, late 1970s–80s, from one of my favorite portfolios in the spring 2021 issue of Aperture. RFS (1930–2025) once told Lynne Tillman: "I made portraits of people and imagined their concerns. As I shoot, there is always inner tension, a trance-like state that contrasts with a nice-girl smile. That’s how I work everywhere.”
27 Jun 2025
A few highlights from the @sharjahart Biennial 16: To Carry, an immense exhibition that convenes artists speaking about solidarity and survival ... my review is now online over at @aperturefnd
Especially glad to learn about compelling, innovative, and/or emotional artworks by @keghamdjeghalian, @stephaniecomilang, @hawajriart, and @azizhazara
14 Mar 2025
It’s one thing to be a tolerant and accepting parent. But it’s quite another to go into the streets and defend your gay kid, to show your LOVE in public—in 1975, no less. I’ve always been in awe of these ladies—and any parent who joined PFLAG—who, if not “fearless” (who can say what or whom they feared?), had enormous integrity. The upright posture, the cheerful, steady look of momentum. The sign on the left reads, in smaller light letters next to the heart, And I’m Proud of Him, Too.
Fred McDarrah, Untitled (PFLAG members at the Sixth Annual Gay Liberation Day March), New York, June 29, 1975. Fred’s work is on view in “Pride and Protest” at the @nyhistory ... ty @jacksondavidow for the very nice recent piece about Fred for Aperture
30 Jan 2025
"Louis Carlos Bernal: Monografía" has been selected by the Times as one of the Best Art Books of 2024!
Congratulations to the curators Elizabeth Ferrer and Becky Senf, designer Duncan Whyte, and the team at CCP for this incredible collaboration with Aperture. Elizabeth’s scholarship and CCP’s exhibition in Tuscon show why archives are essential … thrilled to see Bernal get his flowers, even though he’s no longer with us.
As Holland Cotter writes in the Times: “Early on he struggled with tensions between the roles of artist and activist documentarian, but resolved the divide in images that concentrate less on overt politics than on lived culture. In barrios in Southwestern United States, Mexico and Cuba, he photographed people in their streets and homes, though his most heart-melting pictures are of unpeopled domestic interiors. With their altars, family photographs and tabletop still lifes, these are images of political transfiguration.”
Louis Carlos Bernal, Dos Mujeres, Douglas, Arizona, 1978
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12 Dec 2024
Cansu Yıldıran is the latest photographer to be featured in Aperture's "Introducing" series ... thanks to Kaya Genç for the story about Cansu's work, now online.
Photographs by Cansu Yıldıran, 2016–23
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07 Dec 2024
Arielle Bobb-Willis, New Jersey, 2017, from "Arielle Bobb-Willis: Keep the Kid Alive" (Aperture, 2024)
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27 Nov 2024
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