Aperture

Founded in 1952, Aperture is an essential guide to the world of contemporary photography that combines the finest writing with inspiring photographic portfolios. Each issue examines one theme explored in “Words,” focused on the best writing surrounding contemporary photography, and “Pictures,” featuring immersive portfolios and artist projects.

Aperture

Agenda • Exhibitions to See

Make Prints With Us

Viewfinder • How do the James Webb Space Telescope’s cosmic views represent what we cannot see?

Timeline

Dispatches • Following a brutal and ongoing coup in 2021, photographers from Myanmar attempt to make sense of a troubling new reality.

Curriculum • Mimi Plumb

Accra • Guest edited by Lyle Ashton Harris and Nii Obodai

Zohra Opoku Ghana Becomes You

Lyle Ashton Harris The Society

Image Bank • Illuminating history, culture, and lifestyle, archives in Ghana are living catalogs of the nation’s past.

Ghana Obscura • In the decades since independence, writers and artists from the diaspora have returned to Ghana. What are they looking for?

The Correspondent • Gerald Annan-Forson documented the transformations of postindependence Ghana from an intimate perspective, telling a spectacular story of political and social change.

Postbox Ghana

Carlos Idun-Tawiah Sunday Special

Kay Kwabia Early Risers

Fibi Afloe Beauty Lives in Nima

Why We Went Out • Although queer bars in Ghana are virtually nonexistent, Accra’s LGBTQ community has always found places to drink and dance.

Makola’s Market Queens Misper Apawu

Lloyd Foster Double Double

A Library for the Future • How the Dikan Center has become an oasis for Accra’s photography community.

John Akomfrah The Door of Memory

The Essential Writings

The PhotoBook Review

The Flow of Pictures • Alistair O’Neill speaks with the team behind the UK publisher Stanley/Barker.

Called to the Camera • Spanning more than a century, a new book reveals the inner workings of Black portrait studios.

Reviews

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