“That’s the beautiful thing about photography—it really does engage the public in a very direct way,“ Tyler Mitchell tells Observer. “There’s this immediate conversation with representation that is very interesting to me.“ Speaking by phone from New York City, Mitchell discusses “Wish This Was Real” at C/O Berlin and his oeuvre over the last ten years with a warm and down-to-earth energy. His confidence and contemplative nature come across as that of someone much older (Mitchell is just 29).

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It feels like this is the summer of Tyler Mitchell. Two solo shows on both sides of the Atlantic—this one in Berlin and “Tyler Mitchell: Idyllic Space” at the High in Atlanta—along with a prominent position in “Fragile Beauty” at the V&A in London and recent acquisitions of his work by both MoMA in New York and the National Portrait Gallery........

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