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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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 […]
“Flint is Family” at Florida International University
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 […]
The 10 Best Art Shows of 2018
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. […] 2. LaToya Ruby Frazier, […]
Artists turn their lenses toward their own loved ones in “Family Pictures”
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Georgia’s Separate and Unequal
Special-Education System
The New Yorker October 1, 2018 issue By Rachel Aviv LaToya Ruby Frazier produced a new photographic series to visually represent and advocate justice for six-year-old Seth Murrell and his mother Latoya Martin exposing Georgia’s segregated school system and abuse of Black children with disabilities. Please read and learn about Georgia’s Separate and Unequal […]
Special-Education System
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s best photograph: me and my guardian angel
Grandma Ruby and Me. Photograph: LaToya Ruby Frazier The Guardian August 23, 2018 by Edward Siddons My grandmother, who raised me, was a stern woman of very few words. She believed in strong discipline. But she was also a devoted caregiver. Growing up, she would dress me in Baby Jane ruffled dresses and braid my hair […]
Access to Healthcare: A Conversation Led by LaToya Ruby Frazier
LaToya Ruby Frazier. UPMC Life-Changing Medicine, 2012. From the series The Notion of Family. Art21 Magazine July 6, 2018 LaToya Ruby Frazier On January 27, 2018, a public discussion took place at Gavin Brown’s enterprise, in Harlem, on the occasion of LaToya Ruby Frazier’s solo exhibition (on view January 14–February 25), her largest show in […]
‘BlacKkKlansman’ Movie Poster
Isn’t Pulling Any Punches
LaToya Ruby Frazier photographed actor John David Washington for Spike Lee’s movie poster BlackkKlansman with Focus Features film company. COLLIDER May 17, 2018 by David Trumbore There’s an old saying that a picture is worth a thousand words. In movie marketing terms, a well-designed poster could well be worth millions of dollars. There are few […]
Isn’t Pulling Any Punches
18 Photographers’ Portraits of Their Moms, From Loving to Unapologetic
W Magazine Mother’s Day May 13, 2018 by Stephanie Eckardt and Michael Beckert “I want my parents to live forever,” the late photographer Larry Sultan, who died in 2009, once said of his storied photographs of his mother and father that made up his ’90s series and effort to “to stop time,” Pictures From Home. […]
“This Is the Truth”: LaToya Ruby Frazier Speaks about Art and Social Justice
Guggenheim Museum April 27, 2018 by Jane Lerner Artist LaToya Ruby Frazier is a social documentarian whose body of work directly addresses injustice, inequality, and our deepest humanity. A professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a passionate activist and advocate, her video, performance, and photography projects focus on the realities […]