Artist Spotlight: Mike T Schmitt
Mike T Schmitt is a New York-based photographer and Creative Director working primarily in film. His work centers on women in domestic interior spaces; intimate, unhurried images that document the texture of a particular moment in time without declaring it. The images are quiet but deliberate: locations sourced to feel like they belong to the subject, shoots that unfold without a predetermined final product.
"I'm interested in the hour before and the hour after — not the performance, but what surrounds it. Getting ready, coming down, existing without an audience. I build each shoot around the subject's world so that when the camera comes up, nothing changes. Primarily medium format film, because the deliberateness of the process becomes part of the image. What comes back is a document of a specific time and place — and I'm aware enough of the moment we're living in to know that matters. Whether this is the decade before AI reshapes everything, the last gasp of late-stage capitalism, or just a period when the rate of change finally outpaced our ability to process it, I don't know. But I know the it-girls of this era deserve to be documented the way they actually were — before the moment passes and someone else decides what it looked like." - Mike T Schmitt
Photographer: Mike T Schmitt @miketschmitt miketschmitt.com
