The cover photo for this month's issue of Fader was taken by alum Alexandra Gavillet (Tisch '15). Her photos of the music group Rae Sremmurd accompanied their cover story as well. In an interview, the recent alumna grants some insight into her process and what got her so far since her graduation from NYU Tisch.
On a recent Tuesday afternoon, an idle 18-35mm Canon camera lens sat atop a copy of The Wes Anderson Collection placed on a chestnut coffee table in Alexandra Gavillet’s low-key downtown Manhattan apartment. Gavillet, 23, likes to keep it simple, usually shooting with a Canon Mark III. The recent NYU graduate avoids the idea of having a “signature style; instead, she wants to be multidimensional in her work. When she’s shooting portraits or fashion editorials, she loves interacting with her subjects to help identify, and accentuate, their best and most unique features. “Whatever assignment I'm assigned, I try to make the best of it with who I'm shooting,” she told me. Gavillet’s work has been featured in publications such asCosmopolitan and New York, and she recently shot Rae Sremmurd for the cover of The FADER’s annual Summer Music Issue. We talked to her about how her resourcefulness and collaborative intuition have helped her carve out an impressive career at such a young age.