Donavon Smallwood

Donavon Smallwood is an American photographer, living in New York City. His first book is Languor.

Life and work

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 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.

Publications

Languor. Trespasser, 2021.. Edition of 1500 copies.