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Join Aperture at PHOTOFAIRS New York, a new contemporary art fair dedicated to photo-based works, digital art, and new media.

Join Aperture and the International Center of Photography for a book signing with photographer Kristine Potter and writer Rebecca Bengal. Celebrate both of their recent publications, "Dark Waters" and "Strange Hours."

Sara Cwynar and curator Glass Life (Aperture, 2021). A feminist-inflected investigation of color and image-driven consumer culture,  Glass Life brings together Cwynar’s multilayered portraits and stills from the films  Soft Film (2016),  Rose Gold (2017), and  Red Film (2018). Gallun and Cwynar will discuss the artist’s multilayered practice and how she pursues photography in relation to film, sculpture, digital culture, and the cultural and technological history of image-making. T...

Wednesday, June 9 1:30 p.m. EDT Join Aperture and the Photographers’ Gallery for an online artist talk with Angélica Dass. In a creative practice that constructs archives of personal narratives around race, gender, parenthood, Angélica Dass combines photography and activism to expose ongoing social injustices. In this new public talk, which also celebrates the publication of The Colors We Share (Aperture, 2021), the artist challenges us to reconsider how we think about skin colour and rac...

Virtual Join Aperture and The Marshall Project for a conversation between artist Nigel Poor and poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, celebrating the launch of the book The San Quentin Project (Aperture, 2021). In 2011, Poor began teaching a history of photography class through the Prison University Project (now called Mount Tamalpais College) at San Quentin State Prison, California. Soon, Poor began incorporating images from thousands of negatives from the prison’s vast archive into her visual studies...

Thursday, April 22 Join Aperture and Rockefeller Center for a discussion between Nicole Acheampong, assistant editor of Aperture magazine, and photographers Widline Cadet and Rafael Rios as they speak about their work featured in the “New York” issue, and on crafting intimate portraits of friends and family. In her series Soft, Cadet makes dreamlike, black-and-white photographs of friends embracing in New York City parks, while Rios’s Family series captures vibrant flashes of his exte...

Over the last seven years, Melissa O’Shaughnessy has photographed daily on the streets of New York. As one of a growing number of women street photographers contributing to this dynamic genre, O’Shaughnessy enters the territory with clarity and a distinctly humanist eye, offering a refreshing addition to the tradition of street photography. Through her curious and quirky vision, we witness the play of human activity on the glittering sidewalks of the city. Woven into her cast of characters ...