Rahim Fortune
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Born | 1994 ![]() Austin ![]() |
Website | https://www.rahimfortune.com/ ![]() |
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]
As of May 2021[update], he lived in Brooklyn, New York.[2]
Publications
- Oklahoma. Self-published, 2020. OCLC 1261264279.[13]
- I Can't Stand to See You Cry. London: Loose Joints, 2021. ISBN 978-1-912719-25-9.[14]
Group exhibitions
- From the Limitations of Now, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 2021[15]
References
- ^ "Rahim Fortune". Rahim Fortune. Retrieved December 14, 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f "Rahim Fortune's Homecomings". The New Yorker. May 26, 2021. Retrieved December 14, 2021.
- ^ "No Justice, No Future: Photographer Rahim Fortune Captures Black Communities in Austin, Texas". Rolling Stone. June 11, 2020. Retrieved December 14, 2021.
- ^ a b "Rahim Fortune's Highly Personal Portrait of the American South". AnOther. May 4, 2021. Retrieved December 14, 2021.
- ^ "Our Favorite Photobooks of 2021". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved December 14, 2021.
- ^ "14 of This Spring's Best Art Books". Vanity Fair. May 13, 2021. Retrieved December 14, 2021.
- ^ "12 Art Books to Invest in Now". Vogue. June 6, 2021. Retrieved December 14, 2021.
- ^ "Transitioning – Rahim Fortune documents waterfront communities in America". lampoonmagazine.com. May 1, 2021. Retrieved December 15, 2021.
- ^ Moore, Di'Amond (April 11, 2021). "Black Enterprise, Tradition And Culture At The Bronner Bros. Hair Show". NPR. Retrieved December 14, 2021.
- ^ Park, Sabrina (September 28, 2021). "Gritty, Glorious Pictures of New Yorkers on the Street". Harper's Bazaar. Retrieved December 14, 2021.
- ^ Fortune, Rahim; Gallagher, Avena (December 2, 2020). "When Fashion Favors the Bold". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 15, 2021.
- ^ Interlandi, Jeneen (July 14, 2020). "Why We're Losing the Battle With Covid-19". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
- ^ ""Oklahoma" by Photographer Rahim Fortune". booooooom.com. Retrieved December 14, 2021.
- ^ "Tears over Texas: intimacy and grief in the American South – in pictures". The Guardian. June 22, 2021. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved December 14, 2021.
- ^ "Philbrook to Open Exhibition Confronting Racial Violence in Tulsa and America". Philbrook Museum of Art. Retrieved December 15, 2021.
External links
- Official website
- "Rahim Fortune's Highly Personal Portrait of the American South" – interview in AnOther
- "Rahim Fortune captures loss, anger and healing in Texas" – interview in i-D
- "Rahim Fortune and Mahmoud 'Mo' Mfinanga discuss Fortune's latest photobook, I can't stand to see you cry" – interview in the British Journal of Photography
- "Wordless Touch" – Alec Soth discusses I Can't Stand to See You Cry (video)