Little Black Boy Series

LITTLE BLACK BOY

My work addresses themes of race, culture, family, and Legacy and these images are a kind of family album, filled with friends and family, birthdays, vacations, and everyday life. At the same time, these images tell you more than my family story; they’re a window onto the Black American experience. As I document my son I am interested in examining his childhood and the world he navigates. At the same time these images show my own unspoken anxiety and fragility as it pertains to the wellbeing of my son and fatherhood. 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

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RASHOD TAYLOR. Halloween, 2022
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RASHOD TAYLOR. Snow Day, 2022
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RASHOD TAYLOR. Hotel Life, 2022
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RASHOD TAYLOR. Sad Child, 2022
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RASHOD TAYLOR. Sleeping Shadows, 2022
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RASHOD TAYLOR. LJ Laying On The Bed, 2022
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RASHOD TAYLOR. Only Child, 2022
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RASHOD TAYLOR. Sunday Morning, 2020
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RASHOD TAYLOR. LJ Self Portrait, 2022
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RASHOD TAYLOR. Swim Time, 2022
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RASHOD TAYLOR. Reflection of Me, 2020
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RASHOD TAYLOR. Easter Sunday, 2021
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RASHOD TAYLOR. Protector, 2020
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RASHOD TAYLOR. Prayer Hands, 2020
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RASHOD TAYLOR. LJ and His Fort, 2020
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RASHOD TAYLOR. It’s complicated, 2020
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