We asked a handful of our favourite photographers to look back at 2019 and remember it through the photographs they took. From i-D contributions to personal pictures of friends, family and strangers on the street, this is Tyler Kohlhoff: My Year in Photos.
Tyler Kohlhoff has an incredibly recognisable style of filmmaking and photography. Light, joyful, nostalgic and a little erratic (in the best way possible) his work is an antidote to overly earnest fashion film and imagery. Raised in Portland, Oregon until the age of eight, when he moved to New York, Tyler got into photography at a young age. “My mother got me into it, I have a long history with it,” he says. “When I was growing up I apprenticed as a ceramicist and studied sculpture in college — I really thought that’s what I was going to do with my life, but by the end of school I was obsessed with photography.” These days he works in fashion, mostly in film, “but this year I’ve been doing more work in photo,” he says. He also has a magazine, Sedition, which he started three years ago. “I started it with my partner, Lana Jay Lackey, who is an inspiring stylist and creative director. We’ve released three issues and are starting our fourth.” Next year the pair will be working on more short film projects. “Getting into narrative and documentary is my goal for the new year.”
A$AP
We met this Summer because of Sedition, and have been getting to know each other. This is a collage made from video stills at a concert and pictures of his hands while he’s getting a tattoo. He’s such an artist and an inspiring creative to be around. He’s one of those people you just get that buzz from!
David
We met David last winter when photographing him and his friends for a zine we made. But we really got on and kept making projects with him and his friends throughout the year. He lives in LA and is finishing his last year of nursing school and is working as a tattoo artist. This is a still from a film project we’re working on.
Sky Ferreira
Outtake from a project we did together for Pitchfork, about the release of her upcoming record. She hadn’t released music or been photographed editorially in like six years.
Sienna and Maytal
Part of a group of girls we starting documenting this summer in LA. I guess so many of the kids I photographed this year — including the ones in our i-D story — are a part of a bigger project or point of view about young people and sexuality in America.
Triss
An outtake from our i-D story from Oakland. Triss is such a sick skater and insanely sweet.
Kaia
Kaia is a sophomore who lives in Rockaway Beach, New York with her family. The whole family is super creative and they ran the label Bess and current label 85 NYC. This photo is an outtake from our Carhartt WIP Campaign I made with her this year.
Priscilla
A dancer and artist in LA. One of the young people we’re documenting regularly.
Jacob
Jacob is a junior in high school who lives in Oakland, California. We met him at one of the skateparks where we were shooting our i-D story. He had some amazing braces and was boosting this awesome ramp at the school park.
Michael
Michael is true-blue. We’ve been shooting pictures of him and his friends all year and made a short film about him, featuring his singing and skateboarding last winter.
Lana Jay
Lana is my partner of 10 years. We fell in love taking pictures of each other and are still obsessed with making images (and each other!) This photo is of her on the over pass of the I-84 Freeway in Corbett, Oregon outside her mother’s house. It was at the end of our summer roadtrip from LA to Portland.
Wallace
Wallace is 18 and just graduated high school. Her dad is a “Deadhead” and she has some of that spirit to her.
David with his best friend Biggy.
Credits
All images courtesy Tyler Kohlhoff