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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Frazier and artist Sandra Gould Ford honor working-class life
Pittsburgh City Paper November 29, 2017 by Bill O’Driscoll In 1977, while studying at the University of Pittsburgh, Sandra Gould Ford took the first of a series of clerical jobs at J&L Steel. That was five years before LaToya Ruby Frazier was born. But upon meeting, in 2015, the two women connected immediately: They were […]
Spike Lee Reinvents His Debut in Netflix’s Superb Comedy
Collider November 23, 2017 by Chris Cabin ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ Review Not unlike Twin Peaks: The Return, Spike Lee‘s new Netflix comedy series, She’s Gotta Have It, simultaneously represents a summation and an expansion of the legendary filmmaker’s style and thematic obsessions. And like David Lynch, Lee has returned to his origins to push […]
In Search of the American Family
LENS New York Times November 20, 2017 by Rena Silverman Every November, mothers, fathers and siblings link arms and tap dance straight into the holiday season. Gathered around the glow of a fireplace or at a packed table for turkey dinner, generations bound by blood, marriage — or even a good Sondheim song — impart […]
Frazier Continues Gordon Parks’ Documentary Photography
Unrated November 13, 2017 by Vanessa Feder LaToya Ruby Frazier is an established visual artist who blends her creative eye with personal accounts by way of diverse mediums including film, performance and photography. While she has received a BFA in applied media arts, her MFA in art photography and is currently an Associate Professor of Photography […]
Photographer documents industry’s creeping effect on health of town
Cambridge Day November 12, 2017 by Marc Levy Photographer and video artist LaToya Ruby Frazier spent a dozen years on a project documenting the effects of industry on Braddock, Pa., and its health, environment and people. But it was an easy investment of time to make; it’s her hometown. In a town literally centered around […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier on Gordon Parks’ inspiring legacy
HUCK Magazine November 10th, 2017 by Cian Traynor LaToya Ruby Frazier on Gordon Parks’ inspiring legacy Groundbreaking gravitas As one of the most prominent voices to document American life in the 1950s and ’60s, Gordon Parks used his camera as a ‘weapon’ to fight racism, intolerance and poverty – paving the way for others to […]
Subjective Objective: A Century of Social Photography
The public acceptance of photographs as visual evidence made documentary photography possible. But that acceptance varied over time depending on the case that could be made for photographic objectivity, the mode of a photograph’s dissemination, and the desire for social change motivating many documentary projects. In addition, photographers throughout the twentieth century employed canny interventions […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s The Notion of Family, at Silver Eye
Pittsburgh City Paper November 8, 2017 by Lissa Brennan The nationally known, Braddock-born photographer brings an emotionally charged show home As residents of this city, we might regard the work of LaToya Ruby Frazier as local. Hailing from Braddock, Frazier utilizes her neighborhood as not only a setting but as a presence, a primary character […]
Visiting Artist Lecture at Lesley University
The College of Art and Design at Lesley University is pleased to have LaToya Ruby Frazier as part of the Strauch-Mosse Visiting Artist Lecture Series. Read more… Wednesday, Nov 15, 2017 7:00 pm University Hall Amphitheater, Room 2-150 1815 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, MA 02140
A Black Woman, Steel Worker, and Artist […]
The New Yorker October 31, 2017 by Doreen St. Félix The photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier can capture the decline of an entire economy, the vulnerable cycles of American industry, within a single human face. Like the documentarians Dorothea Lange and Gordon Parks before her, she scales down social upheaval to the intimate, modest scale of […]
Review: “Picture Industry” at Bard College
Art In America November 1, 2017 by Ariel Goldberg “Picture Industry,” curated by artist Walead Beshty for Bard College’s Hessel Museum of Art, champions multimedia art, periodicals, and moving images that theorize the medium of photography. The walls of the entrance to the exhibition are alight with projections of digitally transferred silent films from the […]
The Matter of Black Life: A Conversation with LaToya Ruby Frazier
LaToya Ruby Frazier works in photography, video, and performance to build visual archives that address industrialism, rustbelt revitalization, environmental justice, healthcare inequity, and family and communal history. She is a recipient of both the MacArthur Fellowship (2015) and the Guggenheim Fellowship (2014), and is an Associate Professor of Photography at the School of the Art […]