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(SEPUYA, PAUL MPAGI). Sepuya, Paul Mpagi & Gökcan Demirkazik. New York: Aperture, I00PMSDA-Z, 2024. First Edition. 11 1/2 x 9 1/2", 4to. Cloth with Pastedown. Photography Monograph. New/No Jacket - As Issued. 978-1597115353

PLEASE NOTE: PAUL MPAGI SEPUYA WILL BE SIGNING COPIES OF "DARK ROOM A-Z" AT ARCANA THIS SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd. PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY BELOW FOR IN-STORE PICKUP OR TO SHIP AFTER NOVEMBER 5th.

456 pp, 350 color illustrations. Designed by Polymode.""Paul Mpagi Sepuya reflects on the methodologies, strategies, and points of interest behind a single, expansive body of work at a pivotal moment in his career. Sepuya’s photography is grounded in a collaborative, rhizomatic approach to studio practice and portraiture. This volume unpacks his Dark Room series (2016–21), offering a deep dive into the thick network of references and the interconnected community of artists and subjects that Sepuya has interwoven throughout the images. The excavation and mapping of intellectual and artistic data points across the artist’s work is presented through three distinct “voices,” allowing for a comprehensive cross-referencing of conceptual categories. Each category is alphabetized and illuminated via new texts by curator and scholar Gökcan Demirkazik; selections from previously published texts about the work by critics, colleagues, and friends; quotations of other writers’ work that inspire the artist; as well as writings by the artist on his thematic preoccupations as they appear and reappear throughout this ongoing body of work. Dark Room A–Z serves as an iterative return and exhaustive manual to the strategies and generative ways of working that have informed Sepuya’s image-making over the past two decades". A brand new, most handsome example of this stunning new publication additionally SIGNED by the photographer.

Inventory Number: E00PMSDA-Z