Rahim Fortune
“Hardtack” and Other Stories
AGBS, Austin (TX)
This exhibition surveys three major photographic book projects by award-winning photographer Rahim Fortune (born 1994): Hardtack (2024), I can’t stand to see you cry (2021), and Oklahoma (2020). Based in Central Texas and an enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma. Fortune’s work comprises an extended engagement with histories of documentary, portraiture, and landscape photography from the last century. Drawing on predecessors such as Dawoud Bey, Roy DeCarava, Dorothea Lange, Danny Lyon, and Prentice H. Polk, Fortune investigates cultural geographies of Black and Indigenous communities in the US South, drawing on his personal experience as well as the region’s mythologies, especially as it has manifested in the history of photography.
