Meet the Artists: Creating Stories for Tomorrow 2023 | Aperture Conversations

This past year, as part of the series Creating Stories for Tomorrow, Aperture and FUJIFILM commissioned a group of emerging photographers to each create a new body of work in response to the question: What does tomorrow look like?

From documenting the “ghost villages” in rural India to a photographer’s account of her double life between France and Armenia, these stories reflect on what the future might hold. In this conversation, Brendan Embser, senior editor of Aperture magazine, spoke with Anabelle DeClement, Ashish Shah, Rebecca Topakian, and Patricia Voulgaris about their work and what “tomorrow” looks like for them.

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Thumbnail Image: Patricia Voulgaris, Attempting Connection, 2022. All photographs for Aperture and courtesy the artists

Aperture Conversations Intro Sequence Photo Credits: Joel Meyerowitz, ”Red Interior, Provincetown, Massachusetts,” 1977; Dawit L. Petros, “Hadenbes,” 2005; Kimowan Metchewais, “Indian Handsign, Albuquerque, New Mexico,” 1997. National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution; Jamie Hawkesworth, “Untitled,” 2011–21. Courtesy the artist; Thalía Gochez, “Every Worry Melts Away (Naomi Rodriguez and Grace Sanabria), San Francisco,” 2019; Alec Soth, “White Bear Lake, Minnesota,” 2019, © Courtesy the artist; Sean Kelly, New York; Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco; and Weinstein Hammons Gallery, Minneapolis; Tommy Kha, “Headtown XI/Narcissus VII, Madison Avenue, Midtown, Memphis,” 2021; Sara Cwynar, Film still from “Rose Gold,” 2017, © Sara Cwynar