Online Group Exhibition - "Love In All Forms” December 2020
Analog Forever Magazine is pleased to showcase 32 images in this month’s online exhibition, entitled “Love In All Forms”. Curated by fine art and portrait photographer, Rashod Taylor, these photographs explore the thing many of us are lacking in today’s world: love! The images selected interpret this theme in both traditional and unconventional ways that show you love is actually alive and well in the world and all around us!
Rashod Taylor writes: This call holds a special place in my heart. Not only was Michael gracious to allow me to select the call “Love in all forms” but it also gave me the opportunity to showcase something that I feel that we all can connect to. With all of the events that have transpired in 2020, it just felt right to focus on love. Love is universal, it’s this idea that no matter who we are or what we identify as it’s a driving force in our human condition.
The photographs I reviewed from the community were exceptional. I really enjoyed spending time with this work and was excited to see the different interpretations on what the call meant to people. I viewed many vulnerable and tender moments as I went through the images. I was particularly interested to see the range of imagery that was submitted. Not only images of people interacting but visuals of landscapes, interiors, animals, and symbolism that expressed love. My selection of images was driven by my emotional response to the photographs. Light, composition, and other technical attributes were considered, however, I looked for images that move me and connected to the call. I hope looking at these images give you a sense of not only what it means to love, but a glimmer of everything that is still right in the world in these difficult times.
There were several strong photographs that were under consideration for my favorite. I appreciate all that submitted to this call. My choice was difficult, but I kept coming back to “Untitled” by Andy Jenkins. I was fixated on the sepia tones that contrasted with the purples and yellows on the borders of the Polaroid film. There is a sense of isolation but closeness with the two subjects as one looks out to the vast ocean and the child looks back at the viewer with this gaze of contentment and ownership. There is nothing else that these two need in this world but each other and that’s how it should be. Love will be enough to get them through anything.
- Rashod Taylor
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About the Curator
Rashod Taylor is a fine art and portrait photographer whose work addresses themes of family, culture, legacy, and the black experience. He attended Murray State University and received a Bachelor's degree in Art with a specialization in Fine Art Photography. Since then, Rashod has exhibited and published his work across the Midwest. Most recently, he showed his tintype photographs in the “mobile” photography exhibition for the Midwest Chapter of the Society for Photographic Education Conference in Madison, Wisconsin. He is a 2020 Critical Mass Top 50 Finalist and was a winner of Lens Culture’s Critics Choice award. He is currently working on a series called Little Black Boy, where he documents his son’s life while examining the Black American experience and fatherhood. He lives in Bloomington, IL, with his wife and son. Connect with Rashod Taylor on his Website and on Instagram!
