Announcing the 2022 Aperture Portfolio Prize Shortlist

Aperture’s support of emerging photographers and other lens-based artists is a vital part of our mission. The annual Aperture Portfolio Prize aims to discover, exhibit, and publish new talents in photography—identifying contemporary trends in the field and highlighting artists whose work deserves greater recognition. This year, Aperture’s editors reviewed over one thousand submissions, and we are thrilled to announce the shortlisted artists for the 2022 Aperture Portfolio Prize:

Felipe Romero Beltrán
Juan Brenner
Margo Ovcharenko
Adrien Selbert
Allie Tsubota

These artists join the ranks of illustrious winners and artists shortlisted for the Portfolio Prize in past years, including Dannielle Bowman, Alejandro Cartagena, Jessica Chou, Eli Durst, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Natalie Krick, Daniel Jack Lyons, Mark McKnight, Drew Nikonowicz, Sarah Palmer, RaMell Ross, Bryan Schutmaat, Donavon Smallwood, Ka-Man Tse, and Guanyu Xu.

The 2022 Portfolio Prize winner, to be announced on Friday, May 13, will be published in Aperture magazine, receive a $3,000 cash prize, and present an exhibition at Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York. Each runner-up will receive an online feature.

Alongside the five shortlisted artists, twenty finalists were selected by Aperture’s editors. The finalists and shortlisted artists will each receive a virtual portfolio review session with an Aperture editor, who will provide thoughtful and constructive feedback on their work.

The twenty finalists are:

Aparna Aji, Morgan Ashcom, Steven Baboun, Adraint Bereal, Robert Andy Coombs, Luis Corzo, Mateo Ruiz Gonzalez, Arielle Gray, Pang Hai, Maen Hammad, Sarah Mei Herman, Abdulhamid Kircher, Alan Nakkash, Clyde Nichols, Marc Ohrem-Leclef, Louie Palu, José Ibarra Rizo, Muhammad Salah, Yvonne Venegas, and Patricia Voulgaris

Felipe Romero Beltrán, Fight between Hamza and Aziz, 2020, from the series DialectJuan Brenner, Untitled, 2021, from the series B’OKO’, City of WallsMargo Ovcharenko, Untitled, 2021, from the series OvertimeAdrien Selbert, The Lovers, 2020, from the series The Real EdgesAllie Tsubota, Unidentified Bunker from USSBS General Photographic File, 2021, from the series The Magician’s Bombardier