[The Guardian] The big picture: happiness is a hula hoop with Tyler Mitchell

The big picture: happiness is a hula hoop with Tyler Mitchell

Rising star Tyler Mitchell imagines a black utopia for young Americans

Few photographers in recent years have emerged with quite the acclaim of Tyler Mitchell. Now 25, Mitchell made history two years ago when he became the first black photographer in the 125-year history of American Vogue to shoot a cover image – his pictures of Beyoncé, with a halo of flowers, in natural light, were full of the joy and stylish exuberance he had made his own.

A book and exhibition of his work is called, pointedly, I Can Make You Feel Good. This staged picture of hula hoopers in Brooklyn is typical, he says, of “the conversations that I and other black artists around me want to have. All the pictures propose what our world should look like – if we are allowed all the freedoms we have been historically denied.”

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