This is @aperturefnd signing off on our Instagram takeover with @BOP_Bristol! We’re closing out with a highlight on Aperture magazine’s latest release: “The 70th Anniversary Issue.”⁠ ⁠ Aperture magazine celebrates 70 years in print with a new issue exploring the magazine’s past while charting its future.⁠ ⁠ In Aperture’s first issue, published in 1952, the founding editors mapped out the reasons for bringing the magazine to life, seeking to create a space for photographers and “creative people everywhere” to communicate and speak to one another.⁠ ⁠ For the “70th Anniversary Issue,” Aperture commissioned seven photographers—Iñaki Bonillas, Dayanita Singh, Yto Barrada, Mark Steinmetz, John Edmonds, Hannah Whitaker, and Hank Willis Thomas—to explore a decade of the magazine, considering a single issue, an article, an idea, or even an omission, which seeded their portfolios.⁠ ⁠ Alongside these new portfolios, seven celebrated writers —Darryl Pinckney, Olivia Laing, Geoff Dyer, Brian Wallis, Susan Stryker, Lynne Tillman, and Salamishah Tillet—were given the same prompt: Tour our archive, see what’s there. What the resulting essays reveal is that however much photography and this magazine evolved, sometimes radically, Aperture remained committed to thinking about the meanings of pictures, and all that might encompass.⁠ ⁠ Visit us at BOP to see more, or order your copy at aperture.org/magazine⁠ ⁠ Photographs in order by John Edmonds, Iñaki Bonillas, Hannah Whitaker, Mark Steinmetz, Hank Willis Thomas, Dayanita Singh for Aperture.