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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Aperture releases “The Notion Of Family” in paperback
The Notion Of Family Photographs by LaToya Ruby Frazier Interview by Dawoud Bey Essays by Laura Wexler and Dennis C. Dickerson Now available in a paperback edition, LaToya Ruby Frazier’s award-winning first book, The Notion Of Family, offers an incisive exploration of the legacy of racism and economic decline in America’s small towns, as embodied […]
People Issue from Chicago Reader
Chicago Reader Interview by Aimee Levitt and Danielle A. Scruggs Photos by Danielle A. Scruggs Published on December 7, 2016 “In form, Frazier’s black-and-white photographs echo the work of 1930s social documentarians. But, she says, “I’m not a social documentarian, I’m an artist speaking through photographs.” Unlike those older photographers, she belongs to the world […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier receives New Museum Next Gen Award
On the “A” w/Souleo: Presidential Election Looms over New Museum Next Generation Dinner by Peter “Souleo” Wright 11/7/16 There couldn’t be a more opportune time for the New Museum to honor photographer, LaToya Ruby Frazier than near the end of a tumultuous presidential election season. This past Friday in New York, Frazier was honored at the […]
LaToya speaks at Harvard Art Museums
Socially Engaged: Public and Private Storytelling In this lecture, artist LaToya Ruby Frazier will discuss the value of collaboration—with individuals, families, and communities—to create a powerful platform for social change. Following her talk, Frazier will be in conversation with Sarah Lewis, assistant professor in the Departments of History of Art and Architecture and African and […]
Talk and Book Signing at Strand
Aperture and the Strand present LaToya Ruby Frazier in conversation with Kellie Jones. Now back in print in a new paperback edition, LaToya Ruby Frazier’s award-winning first book, The Notion of Family (Aperture, 2016), offers an incisive exploration of the legacy of racism and economic decline in America’s small towns, as embodied by her hometown […]
MacArthur Genius-Grant Recipient Documents the Devastation in Flint
MacArthur Genius-Grant Recipient LaToya Ruby Frazier Documents the Devastation in Flint, MI Through the Personal Saga of Three Generations of Women in the September Issue of ELLE and in a Multimedia Digital Experience on ELLE.COM NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwired – August 08, 2016) – ELLE announces the debut of an original multimedia documentary project, “FLINT IS […]
Flint Lives Matter
Elle: New Photo Project by LaToya Ruby Frazier Reminds Americans that Flint Lives Matter By Victoria L. Valentine Courtesy of Culture Type Photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier spent the month of May in Flint—a poor, mostly black city—documenting the effects of the contaminated water through the experiences of Shea Cobb, 32, and three generations of women […]
Strength in Numbers at Carnegie Museum of Art
Strength in Numbers: Photography in Groups draws on the collections of all four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh to explore the combined power of multiple photographs. Featuring nearly 100 works dating from the late 1800s to the present, Strength in Numbers highlights series of photographs organized around three themes: People, Place, and Perspective. The exhibition features work […]
Aperture 223 Vision & Justice
Aperture: The Magazine of Photography and Ideas “Vision & Justice” Addresses the role of photography in the African American experience, guest edited by Sarah Lewis, distinguished author and art historian. This issue features two covers: Richard Avedon, Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader, with his father, Martin Luther King, Baptist minister, and his son, […]
WITNESS at MCA Chicago
The photographer as witness is a familiar conceit, one that evokes the artist’s responsibility to observe the lives of others. It’s a role that has been reinforced by traditions of photojournalism, documentary photography, and anthropology, while taking on new forms and renewed urgency in recent years. Drawn largely from the MCA’s collection, the photographs in Witness […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier receives Gordon Parks Foundation Award
THE GORDON PARKS FOUNDATION 10TH ANNIVERSARY AWARDS “CELEBRATING THE ARTS” MAY 24, 2016 The Gordon Parks Foundation 10th Anniversary Awards Dinner and Auction was held on Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at Cipriani 42nd Street. Event co-chairs were Nejma and Peter Beard, Alicia Keys and Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean, Karl Lagerfeld, Usher IV and Grace Raymond, […]
“Genius Grant” Photographer Uses Camera as Weapon Against Racism
LaToya Ruby Frazier, a 2015 MacArthur Fellow, documents three generations of Blackness in a decaying steel mill town By LaToya Cross “This is not an art project.” But rather the collection of over 100 photographs is the life of photographer and Art Institute of Chicago instructor, LaToya Ruby Frazier. Inspired by Gordon Parks’ ideology of […]