Aperture 241 Utopia

Paperback/Softback/Magazine 9.25 x 12 x 0.6" In the wake of a pandemic, global protest movements, and a dramatic presidential election in the United States, Aperture releases “Utopia,” an issue that shows that other ways of living are possible—when the collective will exists. In “Utopia,” artists, photographers, and writers envision a world without prisons, document visionary architecture, honor queer space and creativity, and dream of liberty through spiritual self-expression. They show us that utopia is not a far-fetched scheme, but rather a way of reshaping our future. In a profile, Salamishah Tillet considers Tyler Mitchell’s visions of Black people resting in open green space, a democratizing landscape in which Mitchell continuously asks himself: “What are the things that I can do to lessen the inherent hierarchies in the photography-shoot structure of seeing and being seen?” Sara Knelman shows the freeing possibilities of the feminist collage works of Lorna Simpson, Mickalene Tho