Rashod Taylor is recipient of 2021 Arnold Newman Prize
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Rashod Taylor is recipient of 2021 Arnold Newman Prize
Rashod Taylor, Bath Time.



ROCKPORT, ME.- The Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture is a $20,000 prize awarded annually by Maine Media Workshops + College to a photographer whose work demonstrates a compelling new vision in photographic portraiture.

Taylor’s award-winning work entitled Little Black Boy–modeled in part after a family photo album–offers not only a window into his family story, but also into the Black American experience.

Rashod Taylor (b.1985) is an emerging contemporary photographer who uses the frameworks and methods allied with the history of fine art portraiture to contemplate his own family’s narrative within contemporary America. His photographs are deeply rooted to photographic traditions and break new ground. Taylor is attached to analog practice–the large format camera, the slowing down and honoring of the moment, and the attraction to rich the lush prints produced from his home darkroom–all such factors underline his sentimentality, thoughtfulness, and ally him to the history of family portraiture while adding to its legacy;its future. Taylor attended Murray State University and earned a Bachelor's degree in Art with a specialization in Fine Art Photography. He has since exhibited and been published nationally and internationally.

Implied in the title, Taylor pays particular attention to the relationship between father and son in his series. “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,” explains Taylor. “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.”

The finalists this year include Donovan Smallwood with Languor, Christian K. Lee with Armed Doesn't Mean Dangerous, and GOLDEN with On Learning How to Live.

The Prize is funded by the Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation and administered by Maine Media Workshops + College. The influential and revered photographer and educator, Arnold Newman, enjoyed a decades’ long association with Maine Media, where he taught numerous photographic workshops over the years. The Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation has continued his legacy at the College, supporting scholarships, media production, a distinguished lecture series, and the prestigious Arnold Newman Prize in Photographic Portraiture–a cash prize of $20,000 accompanied by an exhibition awarded annually to a photographer whose work demonstrates a compelling new vision in photography.

Selected by a jury of world-renowned photographers Daniella Zalcman (2021 Catchlight Fellow, grantee of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a fellow with the International Women’s Media Foundation, a National Geographic Society grantee, and the founder of Women Photograph), Brent Lewis (co-founder of Diversify Photo, a photo editor at The New York Times, working on the Business Desk), and Lisa Volpe (Associate Curator, Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston), each juror brought to the selection process a unique perspective guided by distinguished insight, analysis, and integrity.

The winner and finalists for the 2021 Arnold Newman Prize in Photographic Portraiture are invited to participate in a museum exhibition.

The Griffin Museum of Photography will exhibit Taylor’s award-winning work, as well as that of the finalists, from October 5 through 24










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