Rashod Taylor
Little Black Boy

Rashod Taylor - Little Black Boy

Emerging photographer Rashod Taylor focuses on immediate and personal themes of family, culture, legacy, and the black experience in America. These black and white photographs are from Taylor’s ongoing Little Black Boy series are visually smooth and quiet, but still water runs deep. Taylor’s Little Black Boy images act as a family album and personal document, reflecting on the everyday and the special moments life offers, but this is only the framework for deeper reflection. These are subtle and tender photographs that stir our urgent attention as they become a window into the world of a black son and father navigating contemporary America. In a moment our country’s founding promise, “all are created equal” is being proved unfulfilled, these images raise a sense of tension best expressed by the anxieties of his father:

“At times I worry if he will be ok as he goes to school or as he plays outside with friends as children do. These feelings are enhanced due to the realities of growing up black in America. He can't live a carefree childhood as he deserves; there is a weight that comes with his blackness, a weight that he is not ready to bear. It's my job to bear this weight as I am accustomed to the sorrows and responsibility it brings, the weight of injustice, prejudices, and racism that has been interwoven in our society and institutional systems for hundreds of years. I help him through this journey of childhood as I hope one day this weight will be lifted."



Rashod Taylor - Little Black Boy

Bath Time, 2020
LJ and his fort, 2020
Standing in my parents backyard, 2020

Little Black Boy by Rashod Taylor | Price Structure:
20 x 24 in. silver gelatin print on Ilford fiber paper
Edition of 10+2AP | $2,000
Signed and titled verso

Rashod Taylor was recommended for inclusion in You and Yours by Matt Eich.