{"id":346903,"date":"2026-06-23T11:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/346903\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T11:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:08:08","slug":"on-the-podcast-carlos-nazario-and-tyler-mitchell-on-using-texas-to-celebrate-americas-250th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/346903\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Podcast: Carlos Nazario and Tyler Mitchell on Using Texas to Celebrate America\u2019s 250th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vogue Contributing Style Director Carlos Nazario and photographer Tyler Mitchell, who worked together on the summer issue\u2019s \u201cLone Star State of Mind: Snapshots of Texans Today<\/a>\u201d shoot, first met when Mitchell was an intern at Art Partner. A mutual friend introduced them and showed Nazario some of Mitchell\u2019s work. \u201cI instantly was like, this kid\u2019s amazing,\u201d Nazario tells Chloe Malle on the latest episode of The Run-Through with Vogue.<\/p>\n

Mitchell began taking photographs as a teenager in Atlanta, quickly becoming a serious student of the medium. \u201cI started to realize that the images that we\u2019re 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.\u201d His perseverance paid off. In 2018, when he was just 23 years old, he was asked to shoot Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s fourth Vogue cover<\/a>\u2014that year\u2019s September issue.<\/p>\n

The creative duo came into the podcast studio to discuss their stunning collaboration in the Summer 2026 issue\u2014a sprawling portrait both of modern Texan life and, more broadly, of American diversity, 250 years into the nation\u2019s history. Among their subjects were Dallas-born model Ruth Deng and her family; an Austin-based escaramuza team; a Houston-based cowboy crew; and The Ocean of Soul, Texas Southern University\u2019s celebrated marching band. Though neither of them had spent significant time in the state prior to the shoot, both Nazario and Mitchell felt it was critical for them to be there. \u201cWe have to look at the South. To understand the dynamics of this country, one cannot avert their eyes from the South,\u201d the latter says.<\/p>\n

The story fit into a challenge presented by Vogue\u2019s Summer issue: How could the creatives behind it recognize America\u2019s semiquincentennial at a moment of such widespread turmoil and presidential hubris? \u201cMy first thought was it\u2019s a complicated time in our history,\u201d Mitchell noted, \u201cand so without being naive to that reality, how do we address people\u2019s real lives?\u201d Their response, he jokes, to that difficult request, was to head straight to the borderlands; they decided to set part of this photo series in Big Bend National Park, which straddles the Texas\u2013Mexico border.<\/p>\n

In a very American turn of events, just as Vogue was settling on the national park as a location, news came out about the possibility of a border wall being erected in the area. Those plans have since been called off, but the discourse still loomed large over the shoot. \u201cYour phone actually changes time zones down there,\u201d Nazario explains. \u201cBut you also get down there, and you are in the river, and you\u2019re thinking, borders are so arbitrary,\u201d Mitchell adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vogue Contributing Style Director Carlos Nazario and photographer Tyler Mitchell, who worked together on the summer issue\u2019s \u201cLone…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28,123829],"class_list":["post-346903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-the-run-through-with-vogue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}