A celebration of friendship in all its many forms, T Magazine's 2021 Culture issue honours the relationships that helped us through the past year. Toor and Langberg discuss their friendship, each other's work, and their shared passion for Dutch masters and contemporary queer portraiture.
Image, from left: Salman Toor, artist, 37, and Doron Langberg artist, 35, with their respective portraits — “Salman” and “Doron” (both 2021) — that they painted of each other for T. Photographed at Langberg’s studio in Ridgewood, Queens, on March 3, 2021. Photograph by Jason Schmidt