Frazier awarded MacArthur fellowship
LaToya Ruby Frazier is the only photographer among the 24 winners of the prestigious 2015 MacArthur Fellow Program by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
“I’m overjoyed to receive this award because often, when you’re a young black woman talking about inequality, people don’t take you seriously,” [Frazier] says. “It’s validation to my work being a testimony and a fight for social justice and cultural change.”
Informed by documentary practices from the turn of the last century, Frazier explores identities of place, race, and family in work that is a hybrid of self-portraiture and social narrative. The crumbling landscape of Braddock, Pennsylvania, a once-thriving steel town, forms the backdrop of her images, which make manifest both the environmental and infrastructural decay caused by postindustrial decline and the lives of those who continue—largely by necessity—to live amongst it.
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Courtesy of Rachel Lowry @rachelllowry of TIME’s LightBox and MacFound.org
The International Center of Photography (ICP) is pleased to announce the honorees of the 2015 Infinity Awards including Guggenheim Fellow LaToya Ruby Frazier for her publication The Notion Of Family. Award winners will be honored at the gala event on Thursday, April 30, 2015, at Pier Sixty, Chelsea Piers, in New York City.
LaToya Ruby Frazier has been named a 2015 TED Fellow and will speak at the TED2015 conference Truth and Dare, held March 16-20 in Vancouver.
