Rashod Taylor (b.1985) attended Murray State University and earned a bachelor’s degree in art specializing in Fine Art Photography in 2007. Taylor favors traditional and lost format photography practices, silver prints, and wet plate collodion processes among them.
Taylor’s work uses portraiture to address themes of family, race, culture, and legacy. The artist’s photographs are a window into the Black American experience. His photographs are part of the permanent collections of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture, The Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. The Museum of Fine Arts Houston and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Taylor has taught numerous workshops at Anderson Ranch Art Center. He has been invited to present lectures at Stanford University, George Washington University, Savannah College of Art and Design, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Maine Media Workshop + College, Los Angeles Center of Photography, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, among other venues.
The artist is represented by JDC Fine Art and Obscura Gallery and has been included in group and solo shows, respectively.
Editorial clients include National Geographic, The New York Times, Essence Magazine, ProPublica, among others. His work has also been featured in CNN, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Forbes, Hulu, Buzzfeed News, Black & White Magazine, Feature Shoot and Lenscratch.
Rashod Taylor lives in Bloomington, Illinois.