Donavon Smallwood’s practice consists of finding ways to photograph what many observe as the details of life: subtle gestures, small mystifications, loose ends, and budding change. Never indifferent, always with love, Smallwood attempts to photograph as a witness to the beauty and ephemerality of the ordinary and everyday. Smallwood’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at Foam and Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, and are in a handful of collections, including the Rijksmuseum. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2021 Aperture Portfolio Prize. Languor was his first monograph (Trespasser, 2021).
March 18, 2025
