{"id":37268,"date":"2014-09-07T22:39:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T22:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37268"},"modified":"2014-09-24T16:35:47","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T16:35:47","slug":"black-dox-father-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37268","title":{"rendered":"Black Dox: Father Figure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Black Dox: Father Figure<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

By Blacks: Canadian Black owned everything<\/a>
\n2014-09-04<\/p>\n

Nicole Franklin<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\nZun Lee<\/small><\/p>\n

Father Figure \u2013 Exploring Alternate Notions of Black Fatherhood<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Photographer: Zun Lee<\/strong> www.zunlee.com<\/a>
\nIG, Facebook: zunleephoto<\/a>
\nTwitter: @zunleephoto<\/a>
\nProject Timeframe: September 2011 \u2013 present
\nPublisher\/Contact\/Pre-order: Ceibafoto LLC<\/a>
\nBook Release: September 19, 2014.
\nAwards: Named on \u201cPDN 30 2014,\u201d Photo District News\u2019 annual global list of 30 new and emerging photographers to watch.
\nBook Trailer: Father Figure \u2013 Exploring Alternate Notions of Black Fatherhood<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Over the course of three years, photographer Zun Lee built trusted relationships with Black fathers from different walks of life. He witnessed intimate parenting scenarios that are often missing from the public realm and that he himself did not experience as a child. Deeply autobiographical, the book of photographs titled Father Figure \u2013 Exploring Alternate Notions of Black Fatherhood<\/em><\/a> connotes Mr. Lee\u2019s attempt to deal with his own resentment toward his absent Black father.<\/p>\n

Reportage photography has been one of our most valuable resources when it comes to examining the human race from the 19th century through today. Throughout history many have been intrigued by the story behind a single photograph\u2014a captured frame of hope, despair, conflict or exhilaration. The instinct of many professional and amateur photographers to snap that split second of humanity has been a gift to all who seek a glimpse of the past. There is a stillness and an indelible command of focus that leaves an observer transfixed when a documentary image is the epitome of the perfect shot. Self-taught photographer Zun Lee has been on a lifelong quest looking for that perfect image\u2014that loving father.<\/p>\n

Lee, a Toronto<\/a>-based physician and now self-described street photographer, was born in Germany<\/a> but knew as a boy that his personal story was incomplete. He discovered early on that his upbringing to a Korean mother and father was not his true background. The real story: Lee\u2019s Black father left his mother upon learning she was pregnant. The disclosure of this truth left Lee with a sense of loss and abandonment that stayed with him as an adult.<\/strong> In a search for the compassion of which he felt robbed, Lee and his camera sought out images of strong, involved and devoted fathers\u2014Black fathers\u2014who society has deemed nonexistent…<\/p>\n

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Black Dox: Father Figure By Blacks: Canadian Black owned everything 2014-09-04 Nicole Franklin Zun Lee Father Figure \u2013 Exploring Alternate Notions of Black Fatherhood Photographer: Zun Lee www.zunlee.com IG, Facebook: zunleephoto Twitter: @zunleephoto Project Timeframe: September 2011 \u2013 present Publisher\/Contact\/Pre-order: Ceibafoto LLC Book Release: September 19, 2014. Awards: Named on \u201cPDN 30 2014,\u201d Photo District […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,16,19,414,8],"tags":[17852,17851,17853,147,15283],"class_list":["post-37268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-asia","category-canada","category-family","category-media-archive","tag-by-blacks","tag-by-blacks-canadian-black-owned-everything","tag-nicole-franklin","tag-photography","tag-zun-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}