Paul Mpagi Sepuya was a hot young artist. He was still so broke he had to leave New York.
, Rumaan Alam spoke with artist Paul Mpagi Sepuga about photography and the evolution of his career. This partial transcript of their conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.I would say I’m an artist.Well, when you say you’re a photographer, people think you’re for hire. I’ve always primarily made photographs, but there’s more to it than that.
I want to talk about the work you were making in your 20s. Now that you’re older, do you feel the youth in that work, or do you feel that those early portraits that first catapulted you to critical attention were your first mature artistic statement? When you’re 23 and you’re making portraits and they’re getting seen and published, there’s a whole world around that stuff. There’s the 25 Under 25 lists. There’s the features on new artists. There’s a lot of writing around youth. I remember saying at the time, “My work is not about youth.” I’m young, I’m making work with the people that are around me. I imagine as I get older, we’ll all get older together.
When you look at a portrait by Richard Avedon or Annie Leibovitz, you can’t necessarily identify the subject, but there’s an authority or a sense of celebrity or a sense of power inside those figures, the presentation of the figures. Everything about the composition of the photograph implies that you’re looking at a portrait of a powerful or celebrated person.
Those are good examples. Richard Avedon and Annie Leibowitz are photographers, they’re not artists. And again, it’s not to knock it, but those are commissions. They’re paid to take pictures of those people.
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