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Tyler Mitchell is a photographer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, working across many genres to explore and document a new aesthetic of Blackness. Mitchell is regularly published in avant-garde magazines and commissioned by prominent fashion houses.

In 2018, he made history as the first Black photographer to shoot a cover of American Vogue for Beyoncé’s appearance in the September issue. The following year, a portrait from this series was acquired by The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery for its permanent collection.

In 2019, his first solo presentation I Can Make You Feel Good at Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam premiered video works including Idyllic Space. Following its success, I Can Make You Feel Good was developed to include new work, across different mediums, and was exhibited at The International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York in early 2020. Mitchell published an eponymous monograph with Prestel Randomhouse in conjunction with the exhibition, further exploring his take on a Black visual utopia. In the Fall of 2021, Mitchell presented two more shows: Dreaming in Real Time, which was exhibited at Jack Shainman Gallery, New York and An Imaginative Arrangement of the Things Before Me which was shown at The Gordon Parks Foundation in Pleasantville, New York. This exhibition was a culmination of Mitchell being announced as the recipient of the Gordon Parks Fellowship, which supports a new project that reflects and draws inspiration from Parks’ central themes of representation and social justice.