Hosted by Leica Gallery New York, this exhibition presents Alana Perino’s Pictures of Birds, the 2025 Aperture Portfolio Prize–winning series.Alana Perino’s Pictures of Birds constructs a mesmeric evocation of memory and mortality in Longboat Key, Florida, where Perino temporarily moved in 2020 to be with their father and stepmother, whose health was in decline. Here, family roles were rewritten as Perino and their sister became their stepmother’s caretakers, and the series reflects on the strange experience of living in “a home and a retirement community arranged to affirm health and security yet compromised by the ubiquity of illness and impermanence.” Perino has created an expansive family portrait that captures a time and place suspended between memory and mortality.
