LaToya named in “A hundred photographic heroines”

British Journal of Photography
December 14, 2018
by Diane Smyth

Photography is still male dominated – but, 100 years after British women first voted in a general election, the UK’s Royal Photographic Society has compiled a list of 100 inspirational female image-makers

What do Sophie Calle, Rineke Dijkstra, Susan Meiselas, and Hannah Starkey all have in common? They’re all on the list of 100 contemporary women photographers picked out by the UK’s Royal Photographic Society, after an open call for nominations. Over 1300 photographers were recommended to the organisation by the general public, which was slimmed down by a judging panel headed up by photographer Rut Blees Luxemburg.

The final list includes well-known names but also less recognised image-makers such as Native American artist Wendy Red Star, Moscow-based photographer Oksana Yushko, and Paola Paredes from Ecuador. Each Heroine will be awarded a Margaret Harker medal, named after the first female president of The Royal Photographic Society, and the first female professor of photography in the UK. An exhibition and accompanying publication will follow, all part of a bid to highlight women working in what is still a male-dominated industry.

“Although it was a truly challenging exercise having to consider 1300 women, being a part of the jury for Hundred Heroines was ultimately an incredibly stimulating and inspirational process,” says Luxemburg. “This final list reflects both the global expanse of female practice and the intergenerational input into contemporary photography. It reflects the wide range of methodologies, practices and diverse approaches of women working with the photographic medium. This is a moment of change and this list of heroines pays heed to it.”

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Courtesy of: British Journal of Photography

“Flint is Family” at Florida International University

"Shea standing above the Flint River..." by LaToya Ruby Frazier

“Shea standing above the Flint River on the Flint River Trail near the University of Michigan Flint Campus” [detail], 2016 / 2017, Gelatin silver print, 20 x 24 inches, by LaToya Ruby Frazier. All images courtesy of the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York / Rome.

Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum
Florida International University
December 8, 2018
frost.fiu.edu

 

LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint is Family

On View:
Wednesday, January 30, 2019 — Sunday, April 14, 2019

Exhibition Opening:
Wednesday, January 30 from 5-7pm

LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint is Family by photographer and MacArthur Fellow, LaToya Ruby Frazier, explores Flint, Michigan’s water crisis and the effects on its residents. Frazier spent five months with three generations of women – the poet Shea Cobb, Shea’s mother, Renée Cobb, and her daughter, Zion – living in Flint in 2016 witnessing their day to day lives as they endured one of the most devastating man-made ecological crises in US history. Citing Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison’s 1948 collaboration Harlem is Nowhere as an influence, Frazier utilized mass media as an outlet to reach a broad audience, publishing her images of Flint in conjunction with a special feature on the water crisis in Elle magazine in September 2016. Like Parks, Frazier uses the cameras as a weapon and agent of social change.

The exhibition is part of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Exhibition Series, which addresses issues of race, diversity, social justice, civil rights, and humanity to serve as a catalyst for dialogue and to enrich our community with new perspectives.
This exhibition is sponsored by African & African Diaspora Studies Program, College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts, FIU Alumni Association, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, and Multicultural Programs and Services.

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Courtesy of: Florida International University

The 10 Best Art Shows of 2018

LaToya Ruby Frazier at Gavin Brown Enterprises NYC

Vulture
December 6, 2018
By Jerry Saltz

This list of the year’s best art achievements is a story of artists rising to the occasion, from the emerging talents coming out of Chinatown art spaces to the artists behind the Obamas’ official portraits to a significant (and once unsung) Swedish visionary.

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2. LaToya Ruby Frazier, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise
This artist’s searingly honest, empathetic documentary of images of the water crisis in black working-class communities yanked back the curtain on the rotten social malignancy that perpetuates the entrenched racial discrimination inscribed into American laws.

[…]

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Artists turn their lenses toward their own loved ones in “Family Pictures”

LaToya Ruby Frazier “Momme” 2008. Gelatin silver print.
Courtesy of the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York.

On Milwaukee
November 16, 2018
By Bobby Tanzilo

While I can’t provide any hard data, anyone who has visited art museums anywhere in the world can attest that people of color are typically under-represented in them.

Milwaukee Art Museum’s new “Family Pictures” photography exhibition, on view on the Herzfeld Center for Photography and Media Arts gallery through Jan. 20, is a step in the right direction.

Occupying the entire lower-level photography galleries, the show includes works by an intergenerational group of photographers, from the late Roy DeCarava and Gordon Parks to LaToya Ruby Frazier, Lyle Ashton Harris, Deana Lawson, and Carrie Mae Weems.

“Family Pictures” was organized by the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio, but for its Milwaukee stop, some additional works have been included.

“Museums must broaden their collections and exhibitions to show diverse histories, viewpoints and narratives,” says Lisa Sutcliffe, MAM’s Herzfeld Curator of Photography and Media Arts.

“‘Family Pictures’ provides an opportunity to examine the ways in which family has been a vital force in shaping the African-American community from the Civil Rights era to the present moment.”

In a way, says Sutcliffe, the show – with its endearing portraits of grandparents with grandchildren, charmingly mundane everyday household scenes and other familial images – is both a complement and a counterpoint to “The San Quentin Project: Nigel Poor and the Men of San Quentin State Prison,” which is also currently on view at the museum.

“It builds on themes highlighted by ‘The San Quentin Project’,” Sutcliffe says, “which underscores the role of personal narratives and everyday stories to more fully represent a complex and nuanced understanding of human lives.”

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Courtesy of: On Milwaukee Online

Whitney Museum Independent Study Program 1968–2018

Whitney Museum of American Art
Symposium celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Independent Study Program
Oct 19–20, 2018

LaToya Ruby Frazier with Anthony Cokes, Jonathan Crary, Laura Mulvey, and Ben Young for the “Media and Its Apparatuses” panel (Day 2, 12–2pm). Moderated by Soyoung Yoon.

The Independent Study Program (ISP) consists of three interrelated parts: Studio Program, Curatorial Program, and Critical Studies Program. The ISP provides a setting within which students pursuing art practice, curatorial work, art historical scholarship, and critical writing engage in ongoing discussions and debates that examine the historical, social, and intellectual conditions of artistic production. The program encourages the theoretical and critical study of the practices, institutions, and discourses that constitute the field of culture.

Courtesy of: Whitney Museum of American Art

Sundance Institute Names 2018 Art of Nonfiction Fellows and Grantees

Sundance Institute
October, 23, 2018
sundance.org

LaToya Ruby Frazier to receive support from the Sundance Institute’s Art Of Nonfiction Fellowship and Fund Program.

Congratulations to all the incredible recipients: Leilah Weinraub, Kevin Jerome Everson, Jem Cohen, Kevin B. Lee & Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Deborah Stratman, Natalia Almada, Sam Green, and Sky Hopinka.

 

From Unrestricted Grants to Custom-Tailored Support, Documentary Film Program Celebrates Innovative Approaches to Nonfiction Filmmaking

Los Angeles — Ten independent filmmakers working at the vanguard of inventive artistic practice in story, craft and form will receive distinctive opportunities from Sundance Institute’s Art of Nonfiction Fellowship and Fund.

“This year’s cohort reflects our continuing desire to explore the space in between,” said Tabitha Jackson, Director of the Documentary Film Program. “The space between art and film, between photography and moving image, between poetry and social justice, between artist and audience. And who better to lead us into this space of imaginative possibility, and beyond, than this particular group of creative adventurers.”

“Our intention with this program is to provide artist-based support to nonfiction filmmakers operating outside of formal convention, those contributing unique texture to the documentary landscape,” said John Cardellino, Producer of Art of Nonfiction. “As funders, we are thrilled to be in dialogue with these artists, to bring them into dialogue with each other, and to continue building a program rooted in the encouragement of uncompromisingly exploring one’s artistic ambitions.”

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Courtesy of: Sundance.org