Father Figure

Exploring Alternate Notions of Black Fatherhood

Exhibition: 3 Feb 2018 – 31 Mar 2018
Opening: 3 Feb 2018, 18

Father Figure — Jerell Willis carrying Fidel over the Brooklyn Bridge. Brooklyn, NY. November 2012., Digital print on archival paper, 20x28 inches., © Zun Lee

Since 2011, Zun Lee has embedded himself in the lives of African American families, many of them from the Bronx and Harlem, photographing the intimate details of their everyday lives. Father Figure: Exploring Alternate Notions of Black Fatherhood brings into focus the narratives of real fathers as caretakers, interrogating and dispelling stereotypes of Black masculinity and absent fathers.