At 23 years old, Tyler Mitchell became the first African American photographer to shoot a Vogue cover in the magazine's 125-year history. 'You know, we should be shooting covers of Vogue month to month, not just as a first,' he says. (From our archives)
"There's a lot of in my work the black body searching for an idyllic space. And I think the use of vibrant color, the use of natural light, the way that that kind of colors and taints black and brown skin to me feels a lot of how I feel," Mitchell says.
For Beyoncé's shoot in particular, Mitchell says he researched the background imagery surrounding African-Americans and the African diaspora. Specifically, he says he looked to Congolese and Haitian references. "Beyoncé really wanted to elevate everything to a new level," Mitchell says."She was really collaborative and adamant on kind of very glamorous fashion mixing with cultural references that kind of feel like the tropics, so I think her andEven in the images from theshoot, Mitchell says there are elements of his time in Cuba.
"The laundry line references made me think a lot of Havana, a lot of the history of working black women and the color palette associated as such," Mitchell says.
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