Vik Muniz on Photography, Mind, and Matter

Vik Muniz, Vik Muniz, Lucas Blalock , Studio Rubic

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Aperture
01 December 2025

Individual photographers; Photographic equipment & techniques; Special kinds of photography

Series: The Photography Workshop Series

In this volume of The Photography Workshop Series, Vik Muniz

known for his playful pictures that complicate what is understood as a photograph, sculpture, and painting

offers his insight into thinking creatively and seeing the familiar in new and surprising ways.

Aperture works with the world's top photographers to distill their creative approaches, teachings, and insights on photography

offering the workshop experience in a book. Our goal is to inspire photographers of all levels who wish to improve their work, as well as readers interested in deepening their understanding of the art of photography. Through images and words, Muniz shares his creative practice and artistic inspirations, and discusses a wide range of topics, from generating ideas and creating images that challenge viewers' perceptions, to collaboration, imperfection, and the interplay of subject, scale, and material.

Designed by: Studio Rubic
Photographs by: Vik Muniz
Text by: Vik Muniz
Introduction by: Lucas Blalock
Imprint: Aperture
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 190mm,
Weight: 544g
ISBN: 9781597114455
ISBN 10: 1597114456
Series: The Photography Workshop Series
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 01 December 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Vik Muniz (born in So Paulo, 1961) is a prolific, internationally recognised artist, whose signature style appropriates and reinterprets iconic images of our time. His work is featured in major collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museu de Arte Moderna de So Paulo; and Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He has published many books, including the Aperture titles Reflex: A Vik Muniz Primer (2005) and Postcards from Nowhere (2020). Waste Land, a documentary about his work in the favelas and landfills around Rio de Janeiro, was nominated for an Academy Award in 2010. Lucas Blalock is a Brooklyn-based photographer whose work is in the collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, Hammer Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Portland Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among many others. His work has been featured in publications including Arforum, the New York Times, New Yorker, Art in America, Brooklyn Rail, BOMB Magazine, W Magazine, British Journal of Photography, and Time.