Tyler Mitchell is a photographer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn. He is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and self-published his first book, El Paquete, in 2015. Mitchell photographed Beyoncé for the September 2018 issue of Vogue and became the first African-American to shoot a cover for the magazine. He has also worked on projects with Marc Jacobs, Givenchy, Converse, and Solange Knowles. Mitchell has shown in group exhibitions with Artsy, Red Hook Labs Gallery, and Aperture Foundation. In 2019, he was named as a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree in Art & Style.
In 2019, it was announced that his 2018 Vogue cover photo of Beyonce would be displayed in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.
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The story behind Tyler Mitchell's Vogue cover of Beyoncé ... first time in history,
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For the September issue of Vogue, Beyonce hand-picked 23-year-old Tyler
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