The PHOTO 2022 International Festival of Photography opens next week with 90 exhibitions across Melbourne featuring work by 123 artists – from local lenspeople such as Christian Thompson, Atong Atem and Hoda Afshar to international icons Cindy Sherman and Helmut Newton. American artist Paul Mpagi Sepuya entwines the practice of photography with the act of self-creation, highlighting the constructed qualities of portraiture and the photo studio as a site of performance. Made with friends, lovers, peers and members of the queer community, the pictures featured in his solo show explore the relationship between photographer and subject, using mirrors and curtains to play with reflection, exposure and concealment in a way that places the mechanics of his medium in the frame and channels its erotic charge.

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