LaToya’s work for New York Times Magazine mentioned in Artforum

LaToya Ruby Frazier’s portrait of Simone Landrum at home with her sons, Dillon (left) and Caden, during her pregnancy, November 2017.

Artforum
The Year In Review
December 2018
By Lanka Tattersall

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2. Linda Villarosa, “Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies are in a Life-or-Death Crisis.” with photographs by LaToya Ruby Frazier (New York Times Magazine, April 11)

An unsettling, urgent, and deeply instructive piece of journalism—essential reading for everyone thinking about race, gender, healthcare, or inequality. Villarosa explores why black women are at least three times as likely as white women to die from pregnancy related causes in the United States, a crisis that cuts across social economic differences. Frazier’s photographs document the relationship among a mother, her children, and her doula, and capture how expanded forms of family can effectively support a healthy birth in the face of profound risks.

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Three Powerful New Shows Kick off the New Year in Miami

“Shea brushing Zion’s teeth..." by LaToya Ruby Frazier

“Shea brushing Zion’s teeth with bottled water in her bathroom” (2016/2017)

Miami’s Community Newspapers
December 21, 2018
By: News Travels Fast

LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint is Family
Jan 30-Apr 14

Explores the water crisis in Flint, Michigan and the effects on its residents.

The photographer and MacArthur Fellow spent five months with three generations of women – the poet Shea Cobb, Shea’s mother, Renée Cobb, and her daughter, Zion – living in Flint, witnessing their day to day lives as they endured one of the most devastating man-made ecological crises in U.S. history. Citing Gordon Parks’ and Ralph Ellison’s 1948 collaboration “Harlem is Nowhere” as an influence, she 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 2016. Like Parks, Frazier uses the camera as a weapon and agent of social change.

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2019 MLK Convocation with LaToya Ruby Frazier

LaToya Ruby Frazier (John D. & Catherine MacArthur Foundation).

Case Western Reserve University
December 20, 2018
case.edu

Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration
Celebrate the Dream

Each year, Case Western Reserve University honors Martin Luther King Jr.—the holiday, the man and the legacy—with a celebration that includes a range of activities including workshops, films, panel discussions and acclaimed speakers. All members of the university and the community at large are invited to observe King’s holiday and recognize his commitment to social justice and global peace.

The 2019 celebration theme is “Through the Lens of Our Stories: The King Legacy Today.”

LaToya Ruby Frazier, acclaimed photographer and video artist, will headline the 2019 MLK Convocation on Friday, January 18 at 12:45 p.m. in the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Ballroom at the Tinkham Veale University Center on the campus of Case Western Reserve University.

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The Best New Yorker Photography of 2018

Seth Murrell, a child with autism, and his family, photographed for the report “Georgia’s Separate and Unequal Special-Education System,” by Rachel Aviv. Photograph by LaToya Ruby Frazier for The New Yorker

The New Yorker
December 17, 2018

The photo team at The New Yorker assigned more breaking-news commissions this year than ever before. In October, the photojournalist Adriana Zehbrauskas accompanied the staff writer Jonathan Blitzer on a weeklong trip to follow the migrant caravan as it moved north through Mexico. During the midterms, the political photographer Mark Peterson captured, in one powerful image, the Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum in a voting booth with two of his small children standing by. And, after receiving a phone call from our director of photography late one evening in September, the photographer Benjamin Rasmussen woke up before dawn to take a portrait of Deborah Ramirez, who had told Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer of a college encounter with the Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Standing alone in the morning light, Ramirez exuded both quiet resilience and resignation, a poignant moment of calm in the midst of a chaotic and anguished nomination process.

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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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“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