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 25-year-old Black, queer man, care-experienced and living with ADHD. He is the youngest and first Black winner of Pride’s Got Talent and is now building a career as a fashion model.
His creative drive comes from lived experience. Having grown up in the care system, he knows the barriers faced by care-experienced people who want to work in creative fields. He uses his platform to push for access and opportunity, while also speaking openly about ADHD among Black men. Diagnosed at 23, he recognises how racial bias and mental health stigma can delay support and understanding.
For LaMont, queerness is a constant act of protest. It questions fixed ideas of gender and opens space for honest self-expression. He describes his style as New Masculinity, present without a pull towards femininity. One moment made him feel deeply seen. His mother gifted him a Lancôme foundation after watching him struggle to find his shade for a year. Coming from a Kenyan background and still learning what it meant to have a gay son, that gesture carried weight.
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.