[4] Alongside his wife, Abernathy worked documenting African American Black culture in the South Side of Chicago.
Billy Abernathy collaborated on the Wall of Respect, an outdoor mural, with his wife, Sylvia.
[1] Together, they worked on creating a photograph based mural of The Wall scattered around different areas of Chicago.
[1] Fundi Abernathy was one of the photographers featured in the Art Institute's 2018 exhibit "Never a Lovely So Real: Photography and Film in Chicago, 1950–1980".
[6] In 1966, he photographed for Roscoe Mitchell Sextet's Album cover, Delmark which his wife designed.