Rashod Taylor (b. 1985) uses portraiture to address themes of family, race, culture and legacy. His photographs are a window into the Black American experience. Taylor favors traditional and lost-format photographic practices—silver prints and wet plate collodion process among them. Taylor’s most well-recognized work is an ongoing project, Little Black Boy, which won an Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture in 2021. He has exhibited his work nationally and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, actively collects his work.

Taylor conducts workshops at Anderson Ranch Art Center. He has been an invited lecturer at George Washington University, Los Angeles Center of Photography, Maine Media Workshop + College, Savannah College of Art and Design, and Stanford University.

Rashod Taylor completed a bachelor’s degree in fine arts photography from Murray State University in Kentucky in 2007. He lives in Springfield, Missouri.

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