A creative solution for the water crisis in Flint, Michigan
LaToya spent five months living in Flint, Michigan, documenting the lives of those affected by the city's water crisis for her photo essay Flint is Family. As the crisis dragged on, she realized it was going to take more than a series of photos to bring relief. In this inspiring, surprising TED talk, she shares the creative lengths she went to in order to bring free, clean water to the people of Flint.
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‘I’ve Used My Camera as a Compass’
Cultured Magazine by LaToya Ruby Frazier LaToya Ruby Frazier Shares the Tenets Behind Her Practice—and First MoMA Show As her exhibition “Moments of Solidarity” opens for previews, the artist-activist shares her accompanying credo exclusively with CULTURED. Here, Frazier outlines the origins, timelines, and influences behind the 23 years of work on view in the expansive show. […]
The Art World: What If…?! With LaToya Ruby Frazier
The Art World: What If…?! by Allan Schwartzman and Charlotte Burns Segment aired on May 9, 2024 We’re joined by the artist LaToya Ruby Frazier, just before the opening of her major new exhibition ‘Monuments of Solidarity’ at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. “This exhibition spiritually uplifts people,” she says. “It inspires […]
MoMA Surveys Artist-Activist LaToya Ruby Frazier
WNYC New York All Of It with Alison Stewart Published by All Of It Segments by All Of It Guest-hosted by Kousha Navidar Opening this weekend at the Museum of Modern Art is the first wholistic survey of artist and activist LaToya Ruby Frazier, who was just named as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier Is Paying It Forward
New York Times by Siddhartha Mitter Reporting from Braddock and Pittsburgh, Pa. She may be America’s foremost social documentary photographer, now with a survey at the Museum of Modern Art. “All I’m doing is showing up as a vessel.” The photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier creating a self-portrait in Braddock, Pa., her hometown, at the site […]
‘I come from community that’s been forgotten’
The Guardian by Veronica Esposito Artist and activist LaToya Ruby Frazier, one of Time’s most influential people of 2024, prepares for a major survey of her work at the MoMA Momme from The Notion of Family, 2008, by LaToya Ruby Frazier. Courtesy of Gladstone gallery. Photographer and activist LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Monuments of Solidarity is monumental […]
In Solidarity: A Notion of Family, A Nation of Sisters
MoMA Magazine by Roxana Marcoci Read an excerpt from the LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity exhibition catalogue. LaToya Ruby Frazier. Momme from The Notion of Family. 2008. © 2024 LaToya Ruby Frazier. “From the very beginning, I have always been working with other women artists who are not seen as artists or as a […]
LaToya named in TIME’s list of 100 Most Influential People of 2024
TIME100 by Lynn Nottage Photography by Sean Eaton. Courtesy of Carnegie Museum of Art. LaToya Ruby Frazier is an eloquent storyteller, making visible the landscapes and lives of working people. With honesty and empathy, her photographs—soon to be displayed in a solo show at New York City’s MOMA—force us to confront how disenfranchisement, corporate greed, […]
FAMILY TIES
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s intimate, intergenerational portraits The Atlantic by Hannah Giorgis Mom and Me on Her Couch (2010) (©2024 LaToya Ruby Frazier, courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery) The steel industry was already collapsing by the time the photographer and visual artist LaToya Ruby Frazier was born, in 1982. Like many Rust Belt communities, her […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier Raises Her Lens Against Environmental Racism and Healthcare Inequity in America
Arts Help by Zarah Owais From Braddock, Pennsylvania, photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier uses her lens to capture the true essence of the Black experience in America. Her work tells the story of struggle but also that of resilience and strength as she exposes the cracks in the American water sanitation and health care system that marginalized populations […]
Baltimore Museum of Art acquires LaToya Ruby Frazier installation honouring community healthcare workers
The Art Newspaper by Torey Akers The installation spotlights health workers that helped underserved communities in Baltimore at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) has acquired LaToya Roby Frazier’s arresting installation More Than Conquerors: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland 2021-2022 (2022). The piece consists of 66 inkjet prints featuring […]
Kinship Amid a Loneliness Epidemic
Hyperallergic by AX Mina Through multiple mediums, Kinship demonstrates the ways that a number of artists had to navigate COVID-19’s influence on their process The United States is in the midst of a loneliness epidemic. A 2021 study from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education pointed out that nearly a third of Americans report being lonely. This is […]
2023 CPW Vision Awards
June 3, 2023 5:00 PM – 8:30 PM G.W. Van Slyke & Horton Building 25 Dederick Street Kingston, NY The 2023 Vision Awards will honor four people who have significantly impacted photography and CPW itself. The June 3 celebration will be the first public event at CPW’s future headquarters, the historic G.W. Van Slyke & […]