TREVOR STUURMAN

Trevor Stuurman (b.1992, South Africa) is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning visual artist, creative director and media entrepreneur. Starting out as a street photographer capturing Johannesburg’s vibrant creative scene in the early 2000s, Trevor rapidly grew into a household name during his tenure as Elle magazine’s style reporter in 2012.

Since then he has gone on to captivate the public with his work, seeing him named Marie Claire magazine’s Image Maker for 2018, GQ magazine’s King of Creativity, one of Forbes Africa’s 30 Under 30 and TIME Magazine’s Next Generation Leader for 2021. In the same year, Trevor was selected by the Disney group to interpret Marvel’s Black Panther film, became one of British Vogue’s contributors (alongside a prominent feature in the Photo Vogue Festival) and had his work published in the Swinging Africa monograph by Emmanuelle Courreges. Trevor also formed part of the team who created and styled Black is King for Beyonce and in 2023, his works featured in the Brooklyn Museum’s seminal Africa Fashion exhibition.

A renowned portraitist, Trevor has captured the likes of Dr. Esther Mahlangu, Miss Universe 2019 Zizobini Tunzi, Naomi Campbell, Teyana Taylor, Barack Obama, Shanelle Nyasiase, Gigi & Bella Hadid, Kendall Jenner and Iman Hammam.