FOCUS DESIRE

In his portraits and studio photographs, the American artist and photographer Paul Mpagi Sepuya (born 1982) blends sensual intimacy with visual precision. Capturing intimate encounters with friends-cum-collaborators, Sepuya scrupulously constructs compositions that insist on queer and Black subjectivity in photography. Through the deliberate placement of mirrors, fabrics and studio props, Sepuya stages a seductive interplay of exposure and concealment as he engages bodies and gazes in a dynamic web of relations-reflected, refracted, f...[Read more]