Intimate portraits explore the nuance, complexity and heart of black fatherhood – The Washington Post

Intimate portraits explore the nuance, complexity and heart of black fatherhood

“I really wanted to home in on the kinds of everyday moments of love and interaction that are so fleeting and subtle we easily miss them.”

via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2015/06/19/intimate-portraits-explore-the-nuance-complexity-and-heart-of-black-fatherhood/

Intimate and compassionate, the photographs from Zun Lee’s “Father Figure: Exploring Alternate Notions of Black Fatherhood” fight the stereotype of the absent black father, despite Lee having learned of his own biological father — a black man — who left his mother while she was pregnant with Lee. Instead Lee, after years of navigating the road to forgiveness, decided to explore black fatherhood and hold a mirror up to the complexities of fatherhood.