Congratulations to Rashod Taylor on this recent article in Black and White Magazine. Full-feature by Larry Lytle is a six-page spread that discusses Rashod Taylor’s Little Black Boy project’s roots and capacities. The magizine is no replacement for the Artist’s lush silverprints, but a rewarding and luxurious way to engage the intimate portraits none the less.
Lyle acknowledges some of the subtleties in Taylor’s work- gestures, objects, framing choices that are simple yet effective methods of pushing our psychology, engagement, and emotion. Tabula rasa gaze, a banana peel, a flag, a divided portrait. The media itself symbolic- at its invention Black Americans were yet enslaved. Called-out these little symbols resonate and ask us to discover more. This work is loaded. Like the photographer who made the image, we slow down to absorb the subtleties of these images so long that they look back at us. They claim their own place, establish their own history, and invite love. A window and an invitation- a bridge to compassion and method to reciprocate.