And though the early morning photo he took of his own family sleeping was shot in Antwerp, he included it among the collection of images from New York, Utah, Alabama, Nebraska, Minnesota, California, and all the other states he visited to take portraits of fathers at home. The dad responsible for the book is Bart Heynen, a Belgian portrait photographer who now lives in Brooklyn. Such a photograph would have been extraordinarily rare just decades ago, but now it is one of many published in the book “Dads,” a four-year visual archive of gay fatherhood across America that began in 2016. The boys take up most of the space despite their small frames one child reaches his arm across his father’s neck, their faces pressed together in a tender hug. A family of two dads and two young sons lay sprawled among white bed sheets, their hair mussed, pillows pushed aside during the reflexive movements of sleep.
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