Donavon Smallwood
Donavon Smallwood (born 1994) is an American photographer, living in New York City. His first book is Languor (2021).
Donavon Smallwood
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- 1994
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Smallwood was born, grew up and continues to live in Harlem, New York City. He studied documentary film and English literature at Hunter College in New York. Languor (2021) is a book of portraits of people and photographs of nature made in Central Park, Manhattan during the COVID-19 pandemic, using a medium format film camera. Smallwood says "Its subject is what it's like to be a black person in nature." In 2021 the book won the Aperture Portfolio Prize and the work was exhibited at the Camera Club of New York and as part of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize in London.
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• Languor. Trespasser, 2021.. Edition of 1500 copies.
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- 1.Donavon Smallwood's Photographs Envision Black Tranquility in Central Park. Aperture. 14 May 2021.
- 2.Fletcher, Gemma. Zeitgeist: Donavon Smallwood. Creative Review. 13 December 2021.
- 3.Pandemic park life and a secret knitting cult: the best photography books of 2021. The Guardian. 22 December 2021.
- 4.Raimbeau, Tess. Central Park d'attractions. Libération.
- 5.Abel-Hirsch, Hannah. Ones to Watch 2021: Donavon Smallwood - 1854 Photography. British Journal of Photography.
- 6.Perspective - Photographer invites us into the "Languor" of early morning in New York's Central Park. Washington Post. 18 March 2022.
- 7.Photographer Donavon Smallwood: 'What's it like to be a black person in nature?'. The Observer. 26 June 2021.
- 8.Taylor Wessing photographic Portrait Prize 2021 - Exhibitors. National Portrait Gallery, London.
- 9.books - Donavon Smallwood. donavonsmallwood.com.
- 10.Our 12 Favorite Photography Books of 2021. Wired. 21 December 2021.
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