Aperture No. 261 - Winter 2025 The Craft Issue

Aperture’s issue on craft features photographers who make pictures the slow way—building camera obscuras, creating photograms, and laboring in traditional darkrooms to make handmade, unrepeatable forms.

Features -

EDITORS’ NOTE
The Craft Issue

THE POLEMICS OF CRAFT
Theaster Gates is making the most of the material world
A conversation with Ekow Eshun

LOOKING GLASS
Ann Weathersby holds a mirror to expanded female consciousness
Rebecca Bengal

THINGS AS THEY ARE
Jungjin Lee’s landscapes of introspection
Julia Halperin

HANDS TO HEAVENS
The darkroom alchemy of Aspen Mays
Mimi Zeiger

THE DEPTH OF A POCKET
Christophe Lemaire and Sarah-Linh Tran on fashion, movies, and everyday gestures
A conversation with Alistair O’Neill

A VISION OF HER OWN
How Lucia Moholy immortalized the Bauhaus
Alice Rawsthorn

STITCHES IN TIME
Troy Montes Michie’s collages conjure fragments of queer history and desire
Zoë Hopkins

ZEN AND THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Irina Rozovsky and Mark Steinmetz on attention, focus, and darkroom magic
A conversation with Michael Famighetti

HYBRIDS
Erin Jane Nelson fuses ceramics and photography
Eli Cohen

TREASURE ISLAND
John Chiara’s custom camera obscuras illuminate the world’s simple mysteries
Dan Beachy-Quick