Rahim Fortune

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).

Rahim Fortune
Born1994 Edit this on Wikidata
Austin Edit this on Wikidata
Websitehttps://www.rahimfortune.com/ Edit this on Wikidata

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, 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

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