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Secrets: Aperture No. 263, Summer 2026

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Uncovering photography’s secret life: a world of conspiracy, private eyes, voyeurs, hidden histories, and nested realities.


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This issue explores the hidden forces that shape our lives and what we see—from state control and voyeurism to coded gestures and interior worlds. In an age of oversharing and eroded privacy, a well-guarded secret takes on a new currency, a means of opting out of a system that wants to know everything about you. The photographers featured in this issue show how secrets can forge intimacy, create solidarity, become a form of play, propel a riveting whodunit, or resist language altogether.

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Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 148
Publication date: 2026-06-11
Measurements: 8.5 × 10.6 inches
ISBN: 978-1-59711-602-2

Support has been provided by members of Aperture’s Magazine Council: Jon Stryker and Slobodan Randjelović, Susan and Thomas Dunn, Kate Cordsen and Denis O’Leary, and Michael W. Sonnenfeldt, MUUS Collection.

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Secrets: Aperture No. 263, Summer 2026
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Table of Contents

Features

EDITORS’ NOTE
Secrets

DARK ROOMS
The elusive exposures of Alix Cléo Roubaud 
Lou Stoppard 

BARRAGÁN’S CLOSETS
Iñaki Bonillas plays hide-and-seek with a titan of Mexican modernism
Ana Karina Zatarain

SIGNS & SIGNALS
Polly Brown decodes secret handshakes and gestures
Thessaly La Force

OUT OF SIGHT
Taryn Simon elevates investigative journalism to high art
A conversation with Christopher Glazek

WITNESS
Li Zhensheng risked it all to capture the brutal reality of Mao Zedong’s China
Yechen Zhao

PERFECT STRANGERS
Merry Alpern’s lessons in voyeurism
Emily LaBarge

THE X-FILES
John Divola searches for the truth on a Hollywood soundstage
Chloe Wyma

ACADEMY OF SECRETS
Sarah Charlesworth’s art of deception
Brad Phillips

INSIDE THE BOX
The fantastical rise of Szilveszter Makó
Chiara Bardelli Nonino

PRIVATE EYES
A series of 1930s publications doubles as police dossiers
David Campany

UNKNOWN PLEASURES
Estelle Hanania’s recreational monsters
Seb Emina

Columns

AGENDA
Triennial of Photography Hamburg, Harold Edgerton, Lucas Samaras, Camille Vivier

VIEWFINDER
Danielle Jackson on the misdevelopment of Larry Clark’s Tulsa

SPOTLIGHT
Chris Wiley on Aaryan Sinha’s iconoclastic views of India

REDUX
Dan Piepenbring on Rosalind Fox Solomon’s Eggleston Album

CURRICULUM
Nick Knight on Alexander McQueen, Constantin Brancusi, and The Fountainhead

ENDNOTE
Andrew Durbin on the intertwined lives of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek

The Photobook Review

SMELLS LIKE PRINT
Aaron Schuman speaks with Paul Schiek about TBW Books

LOS ANGELES STORY
Noa Lin gets lost in the stacks at Arcana: Books on the Arts

DOUBLE DUTCH
Iva Dixit on Blommers & Schumm’s mischievous fashion photography

Reviews of photobooks by Andrea Modica, Sarah van Rij, Lionel Wendt, and more

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