Mediums: Black & White Photography, Portraiture, Assemblage, Installation, Photojournalism, Written Works

Location: California | New York

ARTISTIC POSITION Taylor Martin is an emerging artist whose work centers portraiture, memory, and shared human experience. Through blkgalerie, founded in 2019, she documents people and communities using candid photography, oral history, and assemblage.

Her practice explores how identity is shaped by place, lineage, and personal narrative. Martin approaches Blackness as a worldview and connective language—highlighting universal themes of belonging, vulnerability, and resilience. Working primarily in black and white, she uses negative and positive space to emphasize emotional presence and the relationship between subjects and their environments.

Across portraits and installation work, Martin aims to preserve stories, honor lived experience, and build visual records that feel familiar and relatable across cultures. She views photography as a universal tool for connection—inviting viewers to recognize themselves through the lives of others