delpire & co is pleased to welcome Rahim Fortune for the launch of Hardtack, a portrait of Black culture and history in the American South, published by Loose Joints Publishing.
Rahim Fortune is a visual artist and educator from the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma. Focusing on the narratives of individual families and communities, he explores shifting geographies of migration and resettlement and the way that these histories are written on the landscapes of Texas and the American South. Fortune’s previous book, I can’t stand to see you cry, was published by Loose Joints in 2021, and was the winner of the Rencontres d’Arles Louis Roederer Discovery Award 2022. His work has been featured in exhibitions worldwide and many perma- nent collections, including the High Museum in Atlanta, GA, LUMA Arles, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and The Bos- ton Museum of Fine Art.
“Fortune’s calm and striking photographs provide a compelling glimpse into the daily rhythms of the community, revealing its deep humanity and dignity, at a time when his own personal pain resonated with the experience of the nation. But his images also capture the pain, tensions, and relentless everyday reality that have influenced the lives of these people. His portraits are so grippingly engaging because he finds the necessary balance between thoughtful compassion and hard truth.” – Collector Daily.
The Chickasaw Nation (Chickasaw: Chikashsha I̠yaakni) is a federally recognized Native American tribe with headquarters in Ada, Oklahoma, in the United States. They are an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, originally from northern Mississippi, northwestern Alabama, southwestern Kentucky, and western Tennessee. Today, the Chickasaw Nation is the 13th largest tribe in the United States.
