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“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.