Tyler Mitchell, Lamine’s Apparition (After Frederick Sommer), 2024. Gelatin silver print, 40 x 50 inches. © Tyler Mitchell. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian.
Read Brookyln Rail's article featuring Tisch Alum Tyler Mitchell and the Director of the National Portrait Gallery, Rhea L. Combs.
"In 2024 Tyler Mitchell traveled to coastal Georgia to create a new body of work. He scouted a number of locations, but when he returned to make photographs he gave his subjects minimal direction. Mitchell’s intent was to discover moments occurring naturally, spontaneously, and in that way to create photographs that communicate in a layered, complex fashion. On the occasion Ghost Images, Rhea L. Combs spoke to the artist as they toured his exhibition. In the conversation that follows, Combs and Mitchell discuss the origins of Mitchell’s new work, avoiding the flatness of nostalgia, and how the idea of ghostliness informs his thinking."