I can't stand to see you cry

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.

Winner of the Arles Discovery Award 2022, Rahim Fortune analyses relationships between family, friends and strangers, all caught in a flood of health and environmental issues while working to maintain grace. Drawing on his own personal experience, the artist explores the friction between public and private life, and the unspoken tensions in daily life through an approach rooted in the landscape.

Through his biographical approach to photography, Fortune also 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.