RASHOD TAYLOR – MY AMERICA
2022-11-14The intimate portrait series Little Black Boy centers on Rashod Taylor’s son, LJ, examining from the photographer’s own perspective both LJ’s childhood and the world he navigates. Taylor’s images reflect his unspoken anxiety over his son’s well-being and his own fatherhood.
Like many first-time fathers, Rashod Taylor began taking photographs of his son, LJ, when he was born. Eventually, though, he began to think there might be more to the photographs than family snapshots, and he began gently choreographing his (mostly) cooperative son in images that lovingly portray mundane moments from his life. The photographs, which sometimes include Taylor himself or his wife, are tender, intimate images of a Black family raising a Black boy in the United States. – excerpt from Photograph Magazine interview in May 2022 with Rashod Taylor by Jean Dykstra.
Exhibition runs through to November 20th, 2022
Obscura Gallery
1405 Paseo de Peralta
Santa Fe
NM 87505
