The Work Scholar Program welcomes individuals to engage in Aperture’s many programs through internships in editing, design, production, circulation, sales, and marketing for photography’s most significant publications and programs, and all other operations essential to a non-profit organization.

Applicants are selected based on their interest and motivation in working for Aperture, and an ability to significantly contribute to the program. Experience and interest in photography, publishing, and fields related to the specific department to which you apply are strongly encouraged.

Please see our website for more information about each of the fifteen departments.

Aperture—located in New York’s Chelsea art district—is a world-renowned non-profit publisher and exhibition space dedicated to promoting photography in all its forms. Aperture was founded in 1952 by photographers Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Barbara Morgan, and Minor White, historian Beaumont Newhall, and writer/curator Nancy Newhall, among others. These visionaries created a new quarterly periodical, Aperture magazine, to foster both the development and the appreciation of the photographic medium and its practitioners. In the 1960s, Aperture expanded to include the publication of books (over five hundred to date) that comprise one of the most comprehensive and innovative libraries in the history of photography and art. Aperture’s programs now include artist lectures and panel discussions, limited-edition photographs, and traveling exhibitions that show at major museums and arts institutions in the U.S. and internationally.