Aperture and Google announce the artists selected from the 2023 Creator Labs Photo Fund, Vogue, September 28, 2023

Ryan Patrick Krueger, *For My People (Semiotics #1),* 2022, from the series On Longing. Photograph by Kalaija Mallery.

Creator Labs Photo Fund is an initiative born from the partnership between the New-York based photography foundation Aperture and Google's Creator Labs in order to financially support artists aged 18 and older, based in the United States, during the most formative and delicate moments of their careers.

Google's Creator Labs was launched in 2019 in partnership with SN37 and the first collaboration with Aperture happened in 2021, providing financial support to 20 artists, in the precarious times that followed the spread of COVID-19. Now, the second edition included a wider selection of artists, chosen regardless their previous experience and publications, as underlined by the Aperture Editor Brendan Embser:

“Partnering with Google on the second edition of the Creator Labs Photo Fund embodies Aperture’s longstanding mission to support new voices in photography. The 30 selected artists bring us projects with a dynamic and wide range of approaches, including commentaries on photography’s documentary and archival potential, and intimate explorations of identity and community. Aperture’s editorial team recognizes critical rigor animating the work by each of these artists, reaffirming the role that images play in creating a dialogue with the past and envisioning new possibilities for the future.”

The grant consists in $6,000 for each one of the following artists:

Vogue: 2023 Creator Labs Photo Fund Announces Winners