Paul Mpagi Sepuya (@pagmi)

The camera will not be turned off.

DARKROOM A - Z (teaser). available for pre-order at Aperture - link in bio. Ships in October! Book launches/signings all fall and winter Format: Hardback Number of pages: 456 Number of images: 350 Publication date: 2024-11-12 Measurements: 9.6 x 11.6 inches edited by Lesley Martin designed by Silas Munro / Polymode Studio commissioned texts by Gökcan Demirkazik research and project management Nico Dregni and Hope Koyama

August 2024 @bortolamigallery studio unseen works alongside TRANCE from Jan 25 🔮

1-2. Studio Mirror Diptych (_DSF1488, _DSF1487) 3. Studio Mirror (_DSF1496) 4. Studio Mirror (_DSF1494) all 2024

Drop Scene (0X5A0936), 2018, 34 x 51 inches. Milestones of artistic photography from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries are put on view - from familiar centerpieces to new acquisitions such as Paul mpagi Sepuyua’s Drop Scene (0X5A0936) (2018). This work was made over 100 years after August Sander’s portrait of the young farmers and directs our gaze toward a complex scenario: almost covered by a black curtain, two people can be made out in fragments. Their torsos are naked, and between them lies a pair of glasses. At the center of the picture is a camera. Is it pointing at us? No, it is directed at a smudged mirror covered with fingerprnits. Might these come from the hand of the photographer, who is at that moment pressing the shutter release? Sepuya’s work is a condensed visualization of the triad of showing, looking, and being looked at; it takes up the complex dialogue with other contemporary works, and also with historical works from the collection, and allows photography to be perceived as an active experience. - Franziska Kunz and Simone Förster On View : Encounters with the Photographic @pinakothekdermoderne

repost @sakirkhader “1060 words on hunger — and the silence that dares to call itself outrage” If you have the kindness and ability to help evenone family, please consider @emadaboharb1 and their gofundme link. a genocide by starvation of millions is unfathomable and within that each person, each family is an entire world.

vermont last month because all we love @adamwhitneynichols and @tinypuppydog so very much and who could ask for more? 💐🦢🪴🌱❤️‍🔥

Over a month late posting but POSITIONER opened May 31 @vielmetter and was extended til august 2. These are the only photos I have from the opening and after! plz send me any you have 🥹 and there’ll be some closing event TBA @trannehathaway @reecetsisto @saturnrisin9 didnt we get some? 🫣

A few of the new works on view at @leedsartgallery in Leeds UK To Improvise A Mountain: Lynette Yiadom-Boakyé Curates Thank you @lynetteyiadomboakye for including me in this exhibition alongside Bas Jan Ader, Pierre Bonnard, Lisa Brice, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Samuel Fosso, Peter Hujar, Zoe Leonard, Kahlil Joseph, Toyin Ojih Odutola, The Otolith Group, Jennifer Packer, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Walter Sickert, David Wojnarowicz.

Gazing Ball Positions 05, 01 and 04. One of the series at the core of this and the last show TRANCE was of the gazing ball, placed on the head of the tripod as an inversion of the camera perpendicular to it across the room, and photographed from six positions - the legs of the tripod and the mid-points between the legs. Each photograph reflects back the studio in the gazing ball but also defines a new space behind the ball. POSITIONER @vielmetter Los Angeles through July 19 Gazing Ball Position 05 (_DSF2697), 2024, 32 x 24 inches Gazing Ball Position 01 (_DSF2675), 2024, 32 x 24 inches Gazing Ball Position 04 (_DSF2692), 2024, 32 x 24 inches

Back in 2009 I made a portfolio of ten portraits from 2008, with support from a residency runner-up lab time stipend from the Camera Club of NY (now @baxterstccny ). I was able to print up 25 sets of these prints. For those who KNOW, who were there or have searched out the archive from way before DARK ROOM (2016-21) and Figures, Grounds and Studies (2014-16) you know these portraits from 2005-2011 are extensive but have remained mostly cult classics and community yearbooks of the 2000s. After the 2019 survey at CAM St. Louis, this is only the second time any of these portraits have been included in a museum exhibition and the only time any have been acquired by a museum, thanks to the vision of @pietro.rigolo . @gettymuseum couldn’t be a better home, but seriously, much of this archive belongs in New York where they came from. portfolio no.1 (2009) edition of 25 featuring portraits of: Vincent, Jay, Pericles, Alex, Tyler Darren, Tim, Devin, Gunnar, Jon

POSITIONER. Vielmetter will be closed tomorrow Saturday June 14. Get out into the street! or show up and speak out however you can! The exhibition will be on view through July 19, and I will be at the gallery on Saturdays July 12 and 19, with some closing event TBC.