Due to concerns about COVID-19, this event has been postponed.
Join us for a conversation centered on food, community, culture, and comfort featuring Jon Gray and Pierre Serrao of Ghetto Gastro, a Bronx-based food collective, and photographer Tyler Mitchell. Audience members will enjoy Ghetto Gastro’s signature strawberry vegan gelato bars while discussing the themes presented in Tyler Mitchell’s exhibition I Can Make You Feel Good, on view at ICP through May 18.
ICP members receive discounted admission and have access to preferred seating in our reserved members' section.
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Ghetto Gastro is a cooking advocacy collective that ignites conversations about race, class, and inclusion via the medium of food. The group was founded in 2012 by Jon Gray, Pierre Serrano, Lester Walker, and Malcolm Livingston II. Ghetto Gastro honors the block-to-block shifts and overlap in international cuisine and culture that happens in the Bronx. The collective is committed to feeding, inspiring, and growing young entrepreneurs in the Bronx.
Tyler Mitchell is a photographer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, working across many genres to explore and document a new aesthetic of Blackness. His career started at an early age: filming skate videos and documenting the music, fashion, and youth culture scenes in Atlanta. In 2017, he graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in film and television. By that time, he had already self-published his first photo book, El Paquete (2015), in which he captured the architecture and emerging skateboard culture in Havana, Cuba. In his first years of college, he started making videos for musicians and shot campaigns for Givenchy, American Eagle, and Marc Jacobs, among others. Mitchell is now regularly published in avant-garde magazines and commissioned by prominent fashion houses.
In 2018, he made history as the first Black photographer to shoot a cover of American Vogue, for Beyoncé’s appearance in the September issue. In 2019, a portrait from this series was acquired by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery for its permanent collection. This, alongside many other accomplishments, has established Mitchell as one of the most closely watched up-and-coming talents in photography today.
Mitchell has lectured on the politics of image making at Harvard University, the International Center of Photography, and numerous other institutions.
