We Are Not Zombies [WANZ]
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WE ARE NOT ZOMBIES presenta Y TÚ QUÉ con NIK MILLS

Para Nick Mills convertirse en artista fue un proceso natural. Su madre, una artista profesional, incentivaba su creatividad por lo que sus habilidades artísticas se desarrollaron en consecuencia. Desde 2015 recorre Estados Unidos para realizar retratos fotográficos alejados de los estándares de belleza, con los que busca visibilizar la diversidad social y racial que existe en ese país, así como las expresiones particulares, reflejo de las raíces e ideologías de cada persona.

Estudió dos años en una prestigiosa escuela de artes antes de ser expulsado. Esa experiencia lo llevó a forjar su propio camino y buscar oportunidades laborales. La suerte ha estado de su lado, su trabajo artístico funciona y se ha exhibido en importantes plataformas de arte, como el Met de Nueva York. Reconoce que el arte no da mucho dinero, pero sí le da felicidad –quizá lo más importante.

Y Tú Qué presenta a humanas y humanos apasionados por su quehacer, su conocimiento y su camino de vida, para inspirar y motivar a otros a hallar su propia pasión.

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Transcript
00:00 (upbeat music)
00:02 When I was a kid, how did I become an artist?
00:07 There wasn't an option.
00:08 Because my mother was a professional artist,
00:11 it was kind of a given that she would facilitate
00:15 my abilities and nurture them as much as she could.
00:19 If I had tried to be a lawyer, she would have disowned me.
00:23 So it's just natural.
00:25 I'm not happy unless I'm creating something.
00:28 My name is Nick Mills.
00:30 I'm from New York originally,
00:32 and I am an artist of many different media.
00:36 Now it's portrait photography.
00:38 I was accepted at the prestigious Cooper Union
00:43 School of Art, and then summarily expelled two years later.
00:48 Immediately hit the streets of New York
00:51 selling airbrush design t-shirts,
00:53 which ended up in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, luckily.
00:57 I painted the murals at Indochine, New York,
00:59 which is one of the hot restaurants of the city.
01:02 So I always seemed to fall into these lucky breaks.
01:06 I always had an idea of what to do,
01:08 and I would just try it and do it.
01:10 And somehow I always got lucky that it worked.
01:14 I never made money, but I never starved.
01:16 My mother did these beautiful Easter eggs.
01:21 So I built a little studio and I took my lamps,
01:26 my soft boxes, and I shot the eggs.
01:29 And I had a friend who's a cinematographer.
01:32 He's a cameraman.
01:33 He helped me to figure out how to do this high key lighting
01:36 to really make the eggs look beautiful.
01:39 And then I thought, you know,
01:40 I could put a person's head in this larger version
01:43 of the same setup.
01:45 And so I did.
01:46 I had some friends come over and I took their picture
01:48 and I thought, wow, this is really something.
01:52 I wanted to catalog and record the fashion statements
01:57 of the young people in Portland, Oregon, the hipster look.
02:01 And I had come from New York where there was the punk look.
02:04 And before that, when I was a little kid,
02:06 there were hippies and I watched these changes.
02:09 And then here's this hipster look.
02:10 And I thought I'm going to capture this.
02:12 So I built on the back of my pickup truck,
02:14 the photo studio, and I recorded the hipster look
02:17 by driving around into different neighborhoods,
02:20 parking and holding photo sessions.
02:23 That started in 2015 and I did it for one whole summer
02:27 and it was embraced right away.
02:28 I would shoot from six, seven o'clock
02:33 until two in the morning and it would feel like one hour.
02:36 And I thought, wow, if I'm in Portland.