This springampampamp160Apertureampampamp160magazine presents issue 250 ampampquotWe Make Pictures in Order to Liveampampquot which explores the relationship between photography and storytelling across generations and geographies. Featuring visual stories that excite surprise and illuminate daily life this issues title is a nod to the late celebrated writer Joan Didion who declared ampampamp8220We tell ourselves stories in order to live.ampampamp8221 Aperture contributors explore the quiet poetry or clamorous disorderampampamp8212of the everyday and attest that making photographs is a way of being aliveIn a sweeping introductory essay Brian Dillon asks how we might view Didion through photography and what images come to mind when we think of her writing. Thessaly La Force profiles Bieke Depoorter who sees documentary photography both as a listening exercise and a form of investigation blurring the lines between authorship fiction and truth.