Reflections marks the first solo exhibition of Texas born photographer Rahim Fortune. Over the past decade, Rahim has used photography to explore collective history and cultural visual language in the American South by intertwining documentary and personal narratives.

Rahim Fortune, born 1994, is a visual artist from the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma. He uses photography to ask fundamental questions about American identity. 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 nominated for the Paris Photo-Aperture Photobook of the Year and the winner of the Rencontres d'Arles Louis Roederer Discovery Award 2022. His 2024 monograph, Hardtack (Loose joints), has garnered international attention, earning a nomination for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2025. His work has been featured in exhibitions worldwide and many permanent collections, including the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; LUMA Arles, France; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond; the Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO and the Boston Museum of Fine Art. Fortune is represented by Sasha Wolf Projects, New York, NY.

I can’t stand to you cry explores Texas, the surrounding states, and the people 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 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 identity and experience amid a pandemic, civil unrest, a cross-country move, a career, and the loss of a parent, thinking about the future and the past.

In Hardtack, Fortune borrows from the language of vernacular and archival photography to interrogate his community's historical relationship to photography. Rooted in the landscape, Fortune often uses sites of historical and cultural interest as a guide but not a subject, implying the deep ties that bind modern Black communities resiliently to their regions in the face of adversity and joy. A significant theme in Hardtack is Fortune’s striking portraits of coming-of-age traditions. Inside, young bull riders, praise dancers, and pageant queens inherit and gracefully embrace these forms of community ritual. Fortune's dignifying eye pays tribute to these cultural performances' rigor, discipline, and creative flair and the intergenerational conversation between young people and elders who pass down these traditions.