Rahim Fortune

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]

• 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]

• From the Limitations of Now, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 2021^[15]