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    Paul Mpagi Sepuya

    Sep 04, 2018 3 minutes
    Andy Campbell

    Twenty minutes into my conversation with Paul Mpagi Sepuya he makes me a diagram. On one end is a drawn figure, representing a photographer, and on the other, a straight line evincing the back of a studio wall. In between, but closer to the wall, is yet another line. This is meant to be a curtain, or a photographer’s backdrop. He labels these points—A (the photographer), B (the—

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