PAUL MPAGI SEPUYA

Paul Mpagi Sepuya presents the work of one of the most prominent, up-and-coming photographers working today. Sepuya primarily makes studio photographs of friends, artists, collaborators, and himself, inviting viewers to consider the construction of subjectivity. H e challenges and deconstructs traditional portraiture by way of collage, layering, fragmentation, mirror imagery, and the perspectiv e of a black, queer gaze. In contrast to the slick artifice of contemporary portraiture, Sepuya suggests the human element of pictur e taking-...[Read more]