Aperture #262

215 x 270 mm, 152 pages

New York, USA

Editor-in-chief: Michael Famighetti

Art direction: H2/SW/HK, London

The quarterly magazine of New York-based non-profit photography foundation of the same name, Aperture is the flagship representation of their commitment to contemporary photography. 

This is ‘The End of Nature?‘ issue, and borrows its title from Bill McKibben’s 1989 manifesto of the same name, regarded as the first mainstream book about climate change. Features include the work of Hashem Shakeri—the cover artist for this edition—whose photographs document a decade of drought in the drylands of Sistan and Baluchestan. Michael Schmelling captures the dwellings left behind by the 1970s back-to-the-land movement in Northern California, while Eva Díaz explores the imagined potential of ‘Earthrise’, an image captured by William Anders to spark environmental consciousness.

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