Shateek Mitchell (b. 1993) is a photographer born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. In high school, he began taking classes in analog photography and darkroom printing. In 2010, he began taking classes at the International Center of Photography (ICP) Teen Academy, enrolling in the Imagemakers program, a professional development course for young photographers. The culmination of the program was an exhibition at the ICP where he created a body of work about his sisters and parents. He studied Sociology with a minor in English at CUNY Hunter College. After studying sociology, he used his knowledge to pursue photography in an introspective and empathetic manner. He focused on the interactions and relationships of the people and places around him while asserting his view of the world.

Shateek Mitchell is an alumni of the International Center of Photography’s Community Fellowship Program (2018-2020), a continuation of the professional development of the Imagemakers course, and a teaching assistant at the ICP, helping to mentor young photographers around New York City. Currently, he is a student in the ICP Documentary Program and Visual Journalism, class of 2021, receiving the inaugural Christian Louboutin Scholarship. Mitchell has provided freelance services to such institutions as the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Option A, and Diamond Supply Company.

He is currently working on long-term projects about Small’s Jazz Club and Fat Cat in Greenwich Village, All That Jazz, and Coney Island, the neighborhood he was raised in. Coney Island is undergoing rapid structural development and change while many of its residents live in poverty and lack access to economic opportunities and live in a food desert. As an ex-resident of Coney Island, he saw an opportunity to reflect on his relationship to the neighborhood and speak about the duality of socioeconomics through photography.

Contact

shateekmitchell@gmail.com