Aperture 254: Counter Histories

This spring, Aperture magazine presents Counter Histories, an issue produced in collaboration with Magnum Foundation, which features artists from around the world who meld the personal and the political-and tell new stories about how the past informs the present. Aperture''s spring 2024 issue presents a series of socially engaged projects that creatively reframe historical events to address urgent questions of the present. The issue will spotlight photographers across the world to ask: What could an archive of the future look like? What possibilities are offered by the gaps and silences in archives and historical records? The issue includes photography and features by, among others, Ken Chen, Edwidge Danticat, Piper French, Christopher Gregory-Rivera, Naomieh Jovin, Yxta Maya Murray, Tausif Noor, Billy H.C. Kwok, Alice Proujansky, Abdo Shanan, Lindokuhle Sobekwa, Prasit Sthapit, and Agata Szymanska-Medina.