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Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Tyler Mitchell's “Black Utopia”

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Tyler Mitchell is a photographer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn. His anticipated debut book, I Can Make You Feel Good, is a timely and unabashedly optimistic celebration of Black life. His photos (available on www.talkeasypod.com) depict young Black men and women living, thriving, and relaxing, in repose and in sunshine. Today, on the show, he reflects on the significance of skateboarding as a teenager; the formative years of working at a cake bakery in Marietta, Georgia; his great escape to New York City; how he spent college doggedly pursuing his dreams; the historic Vogue cover with Beyoncé; and why his work subverts traditional ideas of being Black in America.


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0:00.0

Pushkin.

0:07.0

Hey everyone. This is Talk Easy. I'm a San Francisco. I trust everyone listening today.

0:16.2

Is staying safe right now? I recorded this conversation with

0:21.8

photographer Tyler Mitchell last recorded this

0:25.0

because I recorded this conversation with photographer Tyler Mitchell last week.

0:26.0

For the sake of transparency, I mentioned this because

0:30.0

in the intervening seven days, yet another black man has been needlessly shot by the police.

0:38.4

The man's name is Jacob Blake.

0:41.8

You have likely read the details by now, perhaps you have even seen the video

0:47.1

of his shooting.

0:48.9

Once again, an armed white officer,

0:55.4

surrounded by other armed officers.

0:58.0

Shoplake.

1:01.6

He is now reported to be paralyzed.

1:07.4

He is the father of six children, three of whom are said to have been sitting in the backseat of the car.

1:10.9

Watching. coming legal defense on behalf of Blake. You can donate right now through a link on our

1:26.7

website at www. Talk EasyPod.com. You can also simply Google Jacob Blake GoFund Me.

1:37.0

There is no silver lining to this story.

1:41.0

That he survived does not erase the incident and it doesn't absolve the parties

1:46.2

responsible for this. More details will be released I imagine in the weeks

1:52.0

ahead but there's no least, I imagine, in the weeks ahead.

1:53.0

But there's no detail that's going to tell me that the appropriate response was to shoot a man seven times in front of his children. Seven times there were multiple armed

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