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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. This event takes place in conjunction with the June installment of the Museum of Modern Art’s Hyund...

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 racial identity, and the influence photography has on how we are seen, how we see ourselves and what we...

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 exercises. From the banal to the brutal, to distinct moments of respite, the pictures in this archi...