Fathers, Volume 1 is a 423-page book featuring images and quotes from fathers in America. Composed of photos taken primarily on their mobile phones, Fathers explores the complexity and beauty of their lives as seen through their own lens. It is a testament to the power of shaping one's own narrative—of being seen—despite invisibility in mainstream media and elsewhere.
FATHERS is a "collection of profound optimism. Defiance."
Introduction written by Jelani Cobb
Soft Cover | 423 pages
Available at The Whitney Museum of American Art | The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
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“Ultimately, I began to understand “Fathers’ in a different way.
It began to feel almost like an archival project –– the archiving of our humanity.
Because when future generations, or civilizations look back, if they look at our media, our newspapers, what will they know of us? Will they know that we, Black folks, Black fathers in this case, lived and loved.”
— Robyn Price Pierre, Editor of ‘Fathers’ as told to the NY Times
“If the question is what fatherhood looks like today, here is the answer.
A book of images shot mostly with the phone.
It is a project with intention.” — GQ Italia
