I am a fine art and portrait photographer residing in Seattle, WA. I express my creative vision primarily through film and digital photography. I was formally trained at Seattle Central Community College in commercial photography and have worked shooting portraits, fine art projects, weddings and other commercial contracts since 1997. I am also a teaching artist at Youth in Focus where for the past five years I have taught both traditional BW photography (shooting, film processing and printing) and digital photography (shooting, image enhancement and printing), which I teach currently.
My most recent portraiture/fine art project is The Black Fathers Project (a portion of which is featured in the first gallery). With this project I try to respond to the urban myth of American black men being unable or unwilling to parent.
My work has been displayed at SAM, NAAM, Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, the M. Rosetta Hunter Gallery, the Seattle Center, and ACT (as a part of the Hansberry Project's Fathers and Sons). My latest project, Eve and the Apple, is a visual response to the idea that women are somehow cursed for having the temerity to use their initiative and improve themselves (kindly taking Adam along for the ride) in the Garden of Eden. The work will be shown at a local Seattle gallery in 2010.
all photos © Zorn B Taylor 2007-2010. All Rights Reserved. Permission is required to use any image.