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The New York-based photographer talks us through their intimate and tranquil imagery, fuelled by a need to archive the moments between them and those closest to them.
100 Years After the Tulsa Massacre, What Does Justice Look Like? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/magazine/tulsa-race-massacre-1921-greenwood.html Sections 100 Years After the Tulsa Massacre, What Does Justice Look Like? In 1921, a white mob attacked the Greenwood district of Tulsa, killing hundreds of Black people and destroying the neighborhood. Justice has never been served. Can it still be today? Lessie Benningfield Randle, a 106-year-old survivor of the Tulsa massacre.Credit...Rahim Fortune for The New York Times May 25, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET As dusk was falling on Sept. 16, 2016, callers...
There’s a photograph of a wheat field in Rahim Fortune’s new book, I can't stand to see you cry; the pale stalks bend in the deep night sky, the crop flooded by the harsh light of Fortune’s camera flash. The photo was taken last year in Austin, Texas, on the night Fortune’s father was first hospitalised for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). In two months, Fortune would witness his father’s body fail him, watching as he was taken twice more before passing away. “The first time he was hospitalised, I made the image of the empty bed,” Fortune says, signalling to a photo of his...
Photographer Rahim Fortune visited the Bronner Bros. hair show in Atlanta in February 2020. He says he found a "sense of Black entrepreneurship in the space."
Ralph Ellison-inspired exhibition examines violent histories in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and America Faith Ringgold (American, b. 1930). United States of Attica, 1972. Offset lithograph, 21 5/8 x 27 3/8. Courtesy of the artist and ACA Galleries, New York, NY. ©️ 2020 Faith Ringgold / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. TULSA, OK .-This spring and summer, Philbrook Museum of Art presents From the Limitations of Now, a major museum-wide exhibition that explores how art can serve as a tool to re-examine our past, honoring those who challenge racial violence across America, and envision change i...