ABOUT
Anil Mistry grew up with a passion for art, design and music which led him to collaborate with artists in the burgeoning hip hop and dance music scene of the early 90s as a stylist, graphic designer and director. During this period he developed a number of successful streetwear brands, resulting in his work featuring in the V&A’s seminal Streetstyles exhibition.
His love for the moving image led to a degree in graphic design and animation after which he moved to London to begin a creative career in television as a presenter, producer and director. He went on to senior creative director roles with Paramount, The Walt Disney Company and Omnicom, then broke away to form a solo career - developing projects for Louis Vuitton, Rolls Royce, Harrods, Stylist Magazine, Channel 4, Nike, Footlocker, Estee Lauder and Bombay Sapphire amongst many others.
His photography has been featured in Black and White Photography Magazine, Amateur Photographer magazine, Eighty Degrees Magazine, RIBA Magazine Hong Kong, The Goods and The Idler amongst others. He was a winner on the Sky Arts TV show: “Rankin’s 2020” with his work featuring in the series and the accompanying book. His work has also been exhibited at The Wereldmuseum, Amsterdam.
He is a passionate speaker on the subject of photography, and has guested on numerous popular photography podcasts and written artcicles on photography for popular photography sites.
He hosts free community photowalks in Brighton and London, and has collaborated with luxury photography brand Billingham Bags and camera, lens and film maker Lomography .
He launched the UNUSUAL EYE imprint under which he has published a number of photography books , and his latest book HOMETOWN has been published by documentary photography imprint Fistful of Books.
Anil lives on the South coast, and can be found wandering the streets with a camera in his spare time.
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