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 Ruby Frazier: Artist as Advocate” Whitewall Magazine interview
Whitewall Magazine April 27, 2018 by Katy Donoghue LaToya Ruby Frazier: Artist as Advocate LaToya Ruby Frazier is an advocate. Through her work—in photography, video, and the written word—she’s made visible the untold stories of her hometown devastated by the loss of the steel industry; a family in Flint, Michigan, affected by the water crisis; […]
Flint, 1,462 Days and Counting Man-Made Water Crisis, 2018
LaToya Ruby Frazier asks for justice for the communities in Flint, Michigan, with a flag that reminds us of the number of days residents have been living without water as of April 25th, 2018. The photograph is from her 2016 work Flint is Family, where Frazier spent five months with three generations of Flint women who […]
A Matter of Life & Death – “Leading Edge” segment on PBS News Hour
PBS News Hour April 18, 2018 Judy Woodruff and Amna Nawaz, PBS News Hour Linda Villarosa, contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine Monica Simpson, executive director of Sistersong Photographs by LaToya Ruby Frazier Why are black mothers and infants far more likely to die in U.S. from pregnancy-related causes? Judy Woodruff: The United […]
Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis
The New York Times April 9, 2018 by Linda Villarosa The answer to the disparity in death rates has everything to do with the lived experience of being a black woman in America. In 1850, when the death of a baby was simply a fact of life, and babies died so often that parents avoided naming […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise New York
Art in America Magazine April 1, 2018 by David Markus The hallmark of LaToya Ruby Frazier’s photographic work has been its blend of the political and the everyday. Often cited as an heir to Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Gordon Parks, she uses her artistic practice to advocate for racial and economic justice, particularly on […]
The Atlantic Explores King’s Legacy Through a Contemporary Lens
with Contributions From LaToya Ruby Frazier and Kara Walker LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER’s aerial photographs of Memphis, Chicago, and Baltimore, are featured in a six-page photo essay exploring how the cities have fared through five decades of oppression since King’s assassination. Culture Type March 24, 2018 by Victoria Valentine The year 2018 coincides with many historic […]
What a Picture From the Sky Reveals About Oppression
Special Issue from The Atlantic Fifty years after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., The Atlantic commemorates his life and work—and reflects on the reality of today’s America through the prism of his vision. The Atlantic’s new special issue takes the reader from King’s development as a young activist to the building of his […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Documenting the American Family
NYR Daily February 12, 2018 by Prudence Peiffer In her first solo show, at Gavin Brown’s enterprise, LaToya Ruby Frazier uses the gallery’s grand, multistory Harlem building to great effect, staging her own grand, multistory portrait of the contemporary United States. The show begins on the ground floor with Frazier’s documentation of the Flint water […]
Frazier at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise Harlem through February 25th, 2018
LaToya Ruby Frazier, Andrea Holding her daughter Nephratiti outside the Social Network Banquet Hall (2016 / 2017), all images via Gavin Brown’s Art Observed February 12, 2018 by O.C. Yerebakan Frazier at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise Harlem In her self-titled solo debut at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, artist LaToya Ruby Frazier illustrates an American landscape where dualities intertwine, […]
Like Goya Turning His Eye Toward the Struggles and Triumphs of Black America
Vulture February 9, 2018 by Jerry Saltz In the searingly honest, empathetic documentary images of self-described “artist, curator, educator, and photographer” LaToya Ruby Frazier, I see the rotten social malignancy that perpetuates entrenched racial discrimination that is deeply inscribed into law, lending, and health-care policies. I also see obdurate white tribalism, the 55 […]
Community, Corrosion, and the Flint Water Crisis
The Village Voice January 26, 2018 by Siddhartha Mitter In early 2016, the photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier spent five months in Flint, Michigan. The city — a deindustrialized shell long past its automotive glory days — was reeling from the water crisis that began two years before, when a state-appointed emergency manager decided to save […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier At Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, NYC
Forbes Magazine January 24, 2018 by Clayton Press Art can be as normal as life, but how lives are lived is infinitely variable, defying definitions of normalcy. The artistic life of LaToya Ruby Frazier has been well documented almost to the point of journalistic recycling. It is difficult to add to the facts and flavors. […]