About this episode

Carlos Nazario and Tyler Mitchell discuss their collaboration on a photoshoot in Texas for Vogue's summer issue, highlighting modern Texan life and diversity.

Stylist Carlos Nazario and photographer Tyler Mitchell, who worked together on the summer issue’s “Lone Star State of Mind: Snapshots of Texans Today” shoot, first met when Mitchell was an intern at Art Partner. A mutual friend introduced them and showed Nazario some of Mitchell’s photos. Mitchell was intimidated. “I instantly was like, this kid’s amazing” Nazario told Chloe Malle on the latest episode of The Run-Through. Mitchell began photographing as a teenager in Atlanta and quickly became a serious student of the medium. “I started to realize that the images that we're surrounded with in our daily lives are made by pretty much 12 people. I was like, there should be more voices here. That was really the call to action for me.” His perseverance paid off. In 2018, when he was just 23 years old, he was asked to shoot Beyonce’s fourth Vogue cover for the September issue. The creative duo came to the studio to discuss this stunning shoot from the summer issue, in which they travelled to Texas to capture an array of images that represent both modern Texan life and more broadly what some of America’s diversity looks like. Among their subjects were Dallas-born model Ruth Deng and her…

People in this episode

Guests: Carlos Nazario, Tyler Mitchell

Topics covered

• photography
• styling
• Texas culture
• diversity
• fashion
• art

Keywords

• Carlos Nazario
• Tyler Mitchell
• Texas
• Vogue
• photography
• diversity
• fashion
• Beyonce

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Texas Southern University

Books & works: Vogue

Places: Texas, Atlanta, Dallas, Austin, Houston

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