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Rahim Fortune – I can’t stand to see you cry by Saturday 04 February 4pm, Picture

Rahim Fortune – I can’t stand to see you cry

Saturday 04 February 4pm, Picture • LOOSE JOINTS

ISBN-10: 1912719258 · ISBN-13: 978‑1912719259

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"A year and change into father's diagnosis, his nightly calls began to become more frequent. My sister and I, his youngest children, spent countless hours in his room caring for him as his body gave up. Many nights we'd leave his room both knowing his condition was getting much worse, but we chose to say nothing of it." I can't stand to see you cry is an exploration of Texas and the surrounding states, as well as the people who are fixed within its complex landscape. Fortune analyses relationships between family, friends and strangers, all caught in a flood of health and environmental issues while working to maintain grace. The artist uses his own personal experiences to explore the friction between public and private life, and the unspoken tensions in daily life through an approach rooted in the landscape. Moreover, Fortune’s biographical approach to photography attempts to unpack his own identity and experience in the midst of a pandemic, civil unrest, a cross-country move, a career, and the loss of a parent, thinking about both the future and past. Special edition of first printing also available with 8x10" print Artist bundle also available: save 50% off I can't stand to see you cry when ordering together with Hardtack. 112 pages, 58 tritone plates, 235 × 265 mm Printed embossed hardcover ISBN 978-1-912719-25-9 First printing April 2021, Second printing September 2022 Edit by Sarah Chaplin Espenon Designed and Published by Loose Joints Rahim Fortune artist talk, Saturday 04 February 4pm, Picturehouse NYC Winner of Rencontres d'Arles Louis Roederer Discovery Award 2022 Nominated for PhotoBook of the Year, Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards 2021 Magic Hour #54: Rahim Fortune in conversation at NYABF 2022 Rahim Fortune in conversation, Paris Photo × The Eyes Artist Talks 2022 Rahim Fortune in conversation with Reginald Moore, Sunday 09 May 2021 Press: New Yorker British Journal of Photography PORT Magazine Another Magazine The Guardian Collector Daily i-D Vanity Fair Vogue MoMA Favorite Photobooks of 2021 TIME's 20 Best Photobooks of 2021 WIRED 12 Favorite Photography Books of 2021 Smithsonian The Ten Best Photography Books of 2021 Buzzfeed 24 Photobooks that Bought Us Meaning and Joy in 2021 Creative Review (paywall) Paper Journal (paywall) Interview Magazine Blind Magazine Konbini Rahim Fortune in conversation with Jordan Weitzman, Friday 14 October 2022 16.00–17.00 at NY Art Book Fair.

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Publisher: Pages: 132

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Author: Saturday 04 February 4pmAuthor: Picture

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