{{Short description|American photographer}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2022}} {{Infobox person/Wikidata|fetchwikidata=ALL|dateformat=mdy}}
'''Rahim Fortune''' (born 1994)<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-12-14|title=Rahim Fortune|url=https://www.rahimfortune.com/|website=Rahim Fortune}}</ref> is an American fine-art / documentary photographer, living and working between Austin, Texas and Brooklyn, New York.<ref name="newyorker">{{cite magazine|access-date=2021-12-14|title=Rahim Fortune's Homecomings|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/rahim-fortunes-homecomings|date=26 May 2021|magazine=The New Yorker}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|access-date=2021-12-14|title=No Justice, No Future: Photographer Rahim Fortune Captures Black Communities in Austin, Texas|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-pictures/rahim-fortune-austin-texas-black-lives-1012129/|date=11 June 2020|magazine=Rolling Stone}}</ref> 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.<ref name="newyorker"/><ref name="anothermag">{{cite web|access-date=2021-12-14|title=Rahim Fortune's Highly Personal Portrait of the American South|url=https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/13299/rahim-fortune-photographer-i-cant-stand-to-see-you-cry-book-interview|date=4 May 2021|website=AnOther}}</ref> His mother is Chickasaw and his father is African American.<ref name="newyorker"/> Fortune is a self-taught photographer.<ref name="newyorker"/>
''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."<ref name="newyorker"/>
''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.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-12-14|title=Our Favorite Photobooks of 2021|url=https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/633|website=The Museum of Modern Art}}</ref> Made in Texas and surrounding states, mostly in 2020,<ref name="anothermag"/> 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.<ref>{{cite magazine|access-date=2021-12-14|title=14 of This Spring's Best Art Books|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/photos/2021/05/16-of-this-springs-best-coffee-table-books|date=13 May 2021|magazine=Vanity Fair}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-12-14|title=12 Art Books to Invest in Now|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/12-art-books-to-invest-in-now|date=6 June 2021|website=Vogue}}</ref>
Fortune has also photographed Black and Indigenous people living in waterfront communities in America;<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-12-15|title=Transitioning – Rahim Fortune documents waterfront communities in America|url=https://lampoonmagazine.com/rahim-fortune/|date=1 May 2021|website=lampoonmagazine.com}}</ref> the Bronner Bros. Hair Show in Atlanta (a twice-yearly show where contestants demonstrate the styling of Black hair");<ref>{{cite news|first1=Di'Amond|last1=Moore|access-date=2021-12-14|title=Black Enterprise, Tradition And Culture At The Bronner Bros. Hair Show|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2021/04/11/972492240/black-enterprise-tradition-and-culture-at-the-bronner-bros-hair-show|website=NPR|date=11 April 2021}}</ref> and has made street style portraits in New York City using an iPhone.<ref>{{cite magazine|first1=Sabrina|last1=Park|access-date=2021-12-14|title=Gritty, Glorious Pictures of New Yorkers on the Street|url=https://www.harpersbazaar.com/fashion/photography/g37771358/rahim-fortune-nyc-portrait-iphone-camera/|date=28 September 2021|magazine=Harper's Bazaar}}</ref> He has undertaken commissions for ''The New York Times''.<ref>{{cite news|first1=Rahim|last1=Fortune|first2=Avena|last2=Gallagher|access-date=2021-12-15|title=When Fashion Favors the Bold|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/t-magazine/sharp-bold-winter-fashion.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=2 December 2020|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first1=Jeneen|last1=Interlandi|access-date=2021-12-17|title=Why We're Losing the Battle With Covid-19|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/magazine/covid-19-public-health-texas.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=14 July 2020|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
{{As of|May 2021}}, he lived in Brooklyn, New York.<ref name="newyorker"/>
==Publications== *''Oklahoma.'' Self-published, 2020. {{OCLC|1261264279}}.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-12-14|title="Oklahoma" by Photographer Rahim Fortune|url=https://www.booooooom.com/2020/06/11/oklahoma-by-photographer-rahim-fortune/|website=booooooom.com}}</ref> *''I Can't Stand to See You Cry.'' London: Loose Joints, 2021. {{ISBN|978-1-912719-25-9}}.<ref>{{cite news|access-date=2021-12-14|title=Tears over Texas: intimacy and grief in the American South – in pictures|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jun/22/tears-over-texas-grief-and-gunshot-wounds-in-the-american-south-in-pictures|newspaper=The Guardian|date=22 June 2021|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
==Group exhibitions== *''From the Limitations of Now'', Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 2021<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-12-15|title=Philbrook to Open Exhibition Confronting Racial Violence in Tulsa and America|url=https://philbrook.org/philbrook-to-open-exhibition-confronting-racial-violence-in-tulsa-and-america/|website=Philbrook Museum of Art}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Official website|www.rahimfortune.com}}
*[https://i-d.co/article/rahim-fortune-i-cant-stand-to-see-you-cry-interview/ "Rahim Fortune's Highly Personal Portrait of the American South"] – interview in ''AnOther'' *[https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/13299/rahim-fortune-photographer-i-cant-stand-to-see-you-cry-book-interview "Rahim Fortune captures loss, anger and healing in Texas"] – interview in ''i-D'' *[https://www.1854.photography/2021/04/rahim-fortune-and-mahmoud-mo-mfinanga-discuss-fortunes-latest-photobook-i-cant-stand-to-see-you-cry/ "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'' *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eypOTRWJujQ&t=575s "Wordless Touch"] – Alec Soth discusses ''I Can't Stand to See You Cry'' (video)
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Category:American documentary photographers Category:American fine art photographers Category:Photographers from Texas Category:21st-century American photographers Category:African-American photographers Category:American people of Chickasaw descent Category:Living people Category:1994 births