“It’s a coming-of-age story in Texas,” Fortune tells AnOther of the moving photo book
There’s a photograph of a wheat field in; 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 . In two months, Fortune would witness his father’s body fail him, watching as he was taken twice more before passing away.
In March last year, Fortune left his apartment and headed to Austin to celebrate his birthday with his family, unaware of the imminent change looming on the horizon. Suddenly, the US plunged into lockdown, and with stay-at-home orders in place, Fortune remained in Texas. His week-long visit turned to months and would ultimately shape the future lives of him and his loved ones.His father’s health declined parallel to the country’s own, and the pandemic soon claimed thousands of lives every day.
There are a lot of friends in the book, longtime friends or collaborators, and also a networking community of Black artists in Austin. There are street portraits, but I really wasn’t interested in looking deeply into the lives of others. Even though that is there, I hope that the process of it was not too intrusive into others’ lives the way that documentary photography can be. That interested me, using the people who are so close to me, rather than relying on strangers for metaphor.
“I hope that the process of it was not too intrusive into others’ lives the way that documentary photography can be. That interested me, using the people who are so close to me, rather than relying on strangers for metaphor” – Rahim Fortune
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