Rahim Fortune Explained

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Rahim Fortune (born 1994)[1] is an American fine-art / documentary photographer, living and working between Austin, Texas and Brooklyn, New York.[2] [3] He has made two books of work in the Southern United States: Oklahoma (2020) and I Can't Stand to See You Cry (2021).

Life and work

Fortune was born in Austin, Texas and grew up in nearby Kyle, and in Chickasaw Nation, Oklahoma.[2] [4] His mother is Chickasaw and his father is African American.[2] Fortune is a self-taught photographer.[2]

Oklahoma (2020) is a two-volume self-published book made "on trips back to Tupelo, Oklahoma, where he and his sister lived with their mother earlier in their childhood."[2]

I Can't Stand to See You Cry (2021) "touches on the declining health and death of a parent, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the protests and uprising in response to the police murders of Black people around" the United States.[5] Made in Texas and surrounding states, mostly in 2020,[4] the book includes intimate black and white portraits of strangers and his family members, urban landscapes, textures, and abandoned buildings. It was made using a medium format film camera.[6] [7]

Fortune has also photographed Black and Indigenous people living in waterfront communities in America;[8] the Bronner Bros. Hair Show in Atlanta (a twice-yearly show where contestants demonstrate the styling of Black hair");[9] and has made street style portraits in New York City using an iPhone.[10] He has undertaken commissions for The New York Times.[11] [12]

, he lived in Brooklyn, New York.[2]

Publications

Group exhibitions

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2021-12-14. Rahim Fortune. Rahim Fortune.
  2. Web site: 2021-12-14. Rahim Fortune's Homecomings. 26 May 2021. The New Yorker.
  3. Web site: 2021-12-14. No Justice, No Future: Photographer Rahim Fortune Captures Black Communities in Austin, Texas. 11 June 2020. Rolling Stone.
  4. Web site: 2021-12-14. Rahim Fortune's Highly Personal Portrait of the American South. 4 May 2021. AnOther.
  5. Web site: 2021-12-14. Our Favorite Photobooks of 2021. The Museum of Modern Art.
  6. Web site: 2021-12-14. 14 of This Spring's Best Art Books. 13 May 2021. Vanity Fair.
  7. Web site: 2021-12-14. 12 Art Books to Invest in Now. 6 June 2021. Vogue.
  8. Web site: 2021-12-15. Transitioning – Rahim Fortune documents waterfront communities in America. 1 May 2021. lampoonmagazine.com.
  9. News: Di'Amond. Moore. 2021-12-14. Black Enterprise, Tradition And Culture At The Bronner Bros. Hair Show. NPR. 11 April 2021.
  10. Web site: Sabrina. Park. 2021-12-14. Gritty, Glorious Pictures of New Yorkers on the Street. 28 September 2021. Harper's Bazaar.
  11. News: Rahim. Fortune. Avena. Gallagher. 2021-12-15. When Fashion Favors the Bold. The New York Times. 2 December 2020. 0362-4331.
  12. News: Jeneen. Interlandi. 2021-12-17. Why We’re Losing the Battle With Covid-19. The New York Times. 14 July 2020. 0362-4331.
  13. Web site: 2021-12-14. "Oklahoma" by Photographer Rahim Fortune. booooooom.com.
  14. News: 2021-12-14. Tears over Texas: intimacy and grief in the American South – in pictures. The Guardian. 22 June 2021. 0261-3077.
  15. Web site: 2021-12-15. Philbrook to Open Exhibition Confronting Racial Violence in Tulsa and America. Philbrook Museum of Art.

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