Aperture 260 Autumn/Fall 2025

EDITORS’ NOTE
The Seoul Issue

ABOUT FACE
Heinkuhn Oh’s portraits capture anxieties of state and self
Hyunjung Son

BECOMING SEOUL
The photographic gaze has long shaped Seoul’s political landscape
Jeehey Kim

SCREEN TIME
How do artists respond to a city of hallucinatory surfaces?
Jaeyong Park

SPACE IS THE PLACE
For six decades, Space magazine has chronicled Seoul’s ever-changing skyline
Andrew Russeth

VISIONS
Youngsook Park forged a feminist tradition in 1960s Korea
Sohee Kim

THE COLLECTOR
Bohnchang Koo brings forgotten histories to life
Michael Famighetti

FLASHBACK DIARY
Yezoi Hwang records the uprising of a city in crisis
Jungmin Cho

INTO THE WILD
Doyeon Gwon explores Seoul’s entanglements with animals
Yechen Zhao

K-FRAGMENTS
Chorong An evokes life under the regime of K-beauty
E. Tammy Kim

COLOSSAL YOUTH
The teenage spirit of Sung Jin Park
Hiji Nam

NIKKI S. LEE STAYS IN THE PICTURE
After taking Manhattan, can the artist reinvent herself in her hometown?
Hyunji Nam

SIGNALS
Heeseung Chung lingers in the spaces between images
Sung woo Kim

STRANGER THINGS
Suntag Noh parses the dark absurdism of the Korean divide
Harry C. H. Choi

Columns

AGENDA
Tyler Mitchell, Black Photojournalism, Germaine Krull, New Photography at MoMA

NOTEBOOK
Stephen Shore on the challenges of the color red

VIEWFINDER
C. J. Alvarez on two photographers reframing the US–Mexico border

STUDIO VISIT
Alistair O’Neill on Nigel Shafran’s convivial London darkroom

REDUX
Chris Wiley on the legacy of New Topographics

CURRICULUM
Sara Cwynar on figure skating, cruel optimism, and Aby Warburg

ENDNOTE
Novelist Ed Park discusses his raucous alternate history of Korea

The PhotoBook Review

DIRECTOR’S CUT
Zack Hatfield talks to Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos

SALON STYLE
Iva Dixit on well-coiffed publications

DESCRIBING PICTURES
Kim Beil on photobooks and accessibility

Reviews of photobooks by Guy Bourdin, Christine Furuya-Gössler, Malick Sidibé, and more