#FollowFriday, Aug. 31: You Should Be Following These 5 Photographers, Performers and Activists

In this week’s look at the best and brightest LGBTQ rising stars on Instagram, we share with you a mixture of queer talent that goes in many directions. It’s a feast for the senses, from photography and music to humor and courage.

It’s #FollowFriday, so check out these five photographers, performers and activists:

1. @pagmi

Paul Mpagi Sepuya is a photographer based in New York and L.A. whose work plays with depth in tantalizing ways. It’s delicate, sensual and challenging. You’re unlikely to ever look at the same photograph in the same way twice, with subtle gestures revealing whole worlds of feeling.

With homoerotic forms juxtaposed against clever collages of different parts of different bodies, there’s an empowering narrative at play for queer people of color.