Figure émergente et désormais incontournable de la photographie contemporaine, Tyler Mitchell façonne des images d'utopie et du paysage américain qui élargissent l'imaginaire de la condition noire au XXIe siècle. Sa première grande retrospective, " Wish This Was Real ", célèbre les dix premières années de la création du photographe qui révolutionne les représentations visuelles des corps noirs. Entre photographie de mode, art contemporain et récit intime, Mitchell construit une oeuvre singulière et lumineuse dans laquelle la subjectivité noire est pleinement souveraine. Influencé par le travail de Gordon Parks, Julie Dash et Wolfgang Tillmans, Tyler Mitchell brouille les frontières entre travail de commande et expression artistique personnelle et fait de l'univers de la mode une plateforme de diffusion d'un imaginaire visuel où le choix des modèles, des vêtements et des accessoires est porteur d'un message politique. Le photographe célèbre l'introspection, la fraternité, la mémoire en faisant poser des sujets noirs au sein de paysages bucoliques, souvent inspirés de son enfance en Géorgie, et crée une oeuvre visuelle puissante et poétique, qui propose une autre manière de voir - et d'habiter - le monde.
Tyler Mitchell (born in Atlanta, 1995) is a Brooklyn-based artist, photographer, and filmmaker. He received a BFA in film and television from New York University Tisch School of the Arts in 2017. Mitchell's work has been published widely in magazines, including
Aperture,
Dazed,
i-D,
Interview,
M le magazine du Monde,
Vanity Fair,
Vogue,
W,
WSJ Magazine, and
ZEITmagazin. His work is in numerous private and public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, Studio Museum in Harlem, and Brooklyn Museum, all in New York; National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and National Portrait Gallery, London. In 2018, Mitchell was commissioned to photograph Beyoncé for
Vogue, making history, at the age of twenty-three, as the first Black photographer to shoot the magazine's cover. Mitchell's first solo exhibition,
I Can Make You Feel Good (2019-20), was presented at Foam, Amsterdam, and at the International Center of Photography, New York. He is the photographer of the catalog for
Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, the Costume Institute's spring 2025 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. His solo exhibition
Wish This Was Real (2024-26) opened at C/O Berlin in 2024 and toured to the Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki; Photo Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland; and Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris.
Anna Wintour is the editor in chief of
Vogue and the global chief content officer of Condé Nast.
Sophie Cavoulacos is associate curator in the Department of Film at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Brendan Embser is senior editor at Aperture and the cocurator of
Tyler Mitchell: Wish This Was Real.
Rashid Johnson is an artist based in New York. His solo exhibition
A Poem for Deep Thinkers was presented by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 2025.
