Tania Franco Klein: First Act (self-portrait), 2016

Aperture is pleased to release this limited-edition print by Tania Franco Klein in celebration of Aperture Issue #236: "Mexico City".

Many of Tania Franco Klein's photographs depict female figures who seem lost in the vastness of an inhospitable landscape or a moment of contemplation, the edges of the self-contained within those of a geometrical interior. Her images are bathed in warm cinematic light, boudoir red, and imbued with a Lynchian sense of menace—they resemble film stills taken mid-narrative, though it’s unclear whether the climactic moment has yet taken place.

For her series, Mercado de Sonora (2019), Franco Klein focuses her gaze for the first time, after many photographic projects abroad, on her native Mexico. In the past, she has often donned a wig and turned the camera on herself; in this body of work, her mother and grandmother become the models in an extended form of self-portraiture that captures the ways in which beliefs are passed from generation to generation.

Each limited-edition print is hand-packed with great care and ships from New York within 3–5 days.