Interview with the artist by Wassan Al-Khudhairi Contributions by Malik Gaines, Lucy Gallun, Ariel Goldberg, Evan Moffitt, and Grace Wales Bonner.

Paul Mpagi Sepuya presents the work of one of the most prominent up-and-coming photographers working today. Sepuya makes pho­tographs of friends, artists, collaborators, and himself. He chal­lenges and deconstructs traditional portraiture by way of collage, layering, fragmentation, mirror imagery, and the perspective of a Black, queer gaze. Although the creation of artist books has been a long-standing part of his practice, Paul Mpagi Sepuya is the first publication of his work to be released widely, co-published with the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis on the occasion of a major solo exhibition. - Aperture

Images courtesy of the artist, Aperture, CAM St. Louis, and Lucia|Marquand.