Tyler Mitchell, From Skateboarding to Photographing Beyoncé | Inside Fashion

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The Business of Fashion

Fashion & Beauty, Business, Arts

4.6 • 770 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Speaking in conversation with Imran Amed, the photographer behind Beyoncé's September 2018 Vogue cover talks identity, social media and how he found his way into fashion photography. You can watch Tyler's 2017 American Eagle campaign film here.

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0:00.0	What does it mean to be black and middle class and growing up in the age of the internet?
0:07.4	Skateboarding became a segue into a camera, into filmmaking, and into photography.
0:11.9	So that's when I realized that's what a fashion picture could be.
0:14.3	It's not a thousand things that I kind of thought about in a fictional way.
0:18.2	The first black photographer to take a photo for the cover of American
0:22.1	Vogue in over 100 years. What do you make of the fact that there was no black photographer
0:27.1	before you who had that opportunity? It's one of those things that doesn't don't don't
0:31.1	you until you hear that fact. And I realize that I was about to do something very important.
0:36.9	Hi, this is Imran Ahmed founder founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion.
0:40.6	Welcome to the BOF podcast.
0:42.8	This week on Inside Fashion, I sit down with a new fashion phenom.
0:47.3	24-year-old Tyler Mitchell made fashion history last year when he shot the cover of U.S. Vogue
0:53.2	featuring Beyonce. It was the first time a black
0:57.0	photographer had shot a cover for Vogue in over 120 years. But Tyler, as all fashion people do,
1:05.0	has an amazing and interesting backstory. So I sat down with him for this week's podcast to learn
1:09.6	about what it was like growing up
1:11.2	in Atlanta, Georgia, his time in New York, his new transatlantic fashion jet set life, and all of
1:17.7	the tips and tricks that he's learned along the way on how photography is changing and how
1:23.9	he's shaping his own career. So here's Tyler Mitchell inside fashion.
1:31.2	Good afternoon, Mr. Tyler Mitchell. Hi, I'm Ron. Good afternoon. How are you doing?
1:36.4	I'm good. Thank you for having you. You have come to London on the hottest day in history.
1:40.5	It's so hot. We are so hot. We are in the B-O-F-HQ, which is unusually quiet today because most of our team has decided
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