For the summer 2019 issue of Aperture, guest editor Tilda Swinton draws upon the themes of Virginia Woolf’s prescient 1928 novel Orlando, revolutionary in both form and spirit, to offer original images and writings that celebrate openness, curiosity, and human possibility.
Featured artists and writers include Michael Cunningham, Zackary Drucker, Isaac Julien, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Eileen Myles, Maggie Nelson, Jamal Nxedlana, Elle Pérez, Walter Pfeiffer, Sally Potter, Viviane Sassen, B. Ruby Rich, Antwaun Sargent, Collier Schorr, Mickalene Thomas, Lynne Tillman, Justin Torres, Marina Warner, Carmen Winant—and more.