Contact LaMont: @thisislamont // Hair: @theebony_way // Outfit: @costume_studio_london
LaMont
This is LaMont’s return to a place that first felt like home–and later became conditional. The barbershop was ritual, community, a stand-in for stability, until queerness turned the chair into a test of acceptability. When the room’s casual homophobia surfaced, LaMont walked out and didn’t return.
This portrait is the return, restaged on LaMont’s terms: barbershop masculinity meets queer adornment—poise, refusal, belonging. The chair still carries memory and judgement, but here it’s reclaimed as a seat of queer confidence.
LaMont (he/him)
LaMont is a 26-year-old, North West London-raised, W1-based fashion model and music artist. Represented by Crumb Agency and the youngest/first Black winner of Pride’s Got Talent (2018). Care-experienced (entered the UK care system at 16) and living with ADHD, he turns lived experience into creative practice across image and sound.
He speaks openly about ADHD as a Black man, bringing under-recognised realities into view and challenging bias in how ADHD is understood. He also advocates for greater access to the creative industries for care-experienced people.
LaMont’s aesthetic has been described as New Masculinity: An appearance or qualities rooted in self-defined masculinity, broadened beyond traditional codes of men or boys; without desire to be feminine.
A moment that shaped this was his mother gifting him his first high-end makeup product (Lancôme foundation) after struggling to find his shade for years. Coming from a Kenyan background and still learning what it meant to have a gay son, that gesture carried weight—and continues to inform how LaMont approaches beauty, visibility and being seen.
This is UNCUT — a raw, striking portrait series by award-winning photographer Chris Jepson capturing the power and pride of Queer Joy, shot in a barber’s chair. No filters, no retouching, no compromise. Just bold, beautiful people taking up space exactly as they are.