TALKING PICTURES Stella Blackmon

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Stella Blackmon is a director based in southwest Missouri and New York. She casts her extended family and hometown neighbours to play exaggerated versions of themselves in narrative films based in the Ozark Mountains, like in her four-part ‘Reunion’ series and her campaigns for babaá. Stella documented Harry Styles’ sold-out worldwide ‘Love on Tour,' and recently co-directed a short documentary on rodeo trick riders. Previously, she worked as a photo editor at New York Magazine.

 

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