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 Takes on Levi’s
“LaToya Ruby Frazier Takes on Levi’s” “New York Close Up” on Art21 Premiered June 17 2011 LaToya Ruby Frazier Takes on Levi’s | “New York Close Up” | Art21 from Art21 on Vimeo.
Self Portrait (United States Steel)
Self Portrait (United States Steel), 2010 Digital Video Transfer to DVD Color, Sound, 3:28 Minutes
DETOX (Braddock U.P.M.C.)
DETOX (Braddock U.P.M.C.), 2011 Digital Video Transfer to DVD Color, Sound, 22:23 minutes
Momme Portrait Series (Wrestle)
Momme Portrait Series (Wrestle), 2009 Digital Transfer to DVD Color, Silent, 58 Seconds
Momme Portrait Series (Heads)
Momme Portrait Series (Heads), 2008 Digital Video Transfer to DVD Color, Silent, 2:05 Minutes
A Mother To Hold
A Mother To Hold, 2006 Digital Video Transfer to DVD Color, Sound, 24:27 Minutes
“Politics & Poetics”
“LaToya Ruby Frazier: Politics & Poetics” Featured on NJTV’s “State of the Arts” Aired: Sunday, April 1, 2012 at 8 pm on NJTV. LaToya Ruby Frazier at the Whitney from PCK Media on Vimeo.
LaToya Ruby Frazier at the Whitney Biennial
NJ Today By Susan Wallner A hot young artist making waves at the current Whitney Biennial, LaToya Ruby Frazier has a laser focus and a committed work ethic. She commutes daily to her job at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers in New Brunswick, where she curates the gallery and teaches photography. […]
“Inheritance” at iMOCA
Inheritance LaToya Ruby Frazier and Tony Buba April 6 — May 19 Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art “iMOCA will celebrate ten years by bringing in artist LaToya Ruby Frazier to curate the most comprehensive display of her work, some of it never seen before, for her exhibit, Inheritance.” Read more…
Whitney Museum artist profile
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s photographs cover three bodies of work that revolve around her hometown, Braddock, Pennsylvania. The working-class suburb of Pittsburgh thrived in the first half of the twentieth century as home to a large Andrew Carnegie–owned steel mill. With the collapse of the steel industry in the 1970s, however, Braddock entered a long and ongoing […]
When the Personal Turns Political
When the Personal Turns Political: LaToya Ruby Frazier at the Whitney Biennial Time Magazine Lightbox Paul Moakley February 29, 2012 From the outset of her career as a young artist, LaToya Ruby Frazier has always found inspiration at home. In thoughtfully constructed black and white photographs she began, in her teens, to document herself […]
NYT – Nerves of Steel
LaToya featured in Timely – The New York Times Style Magazine. “If the individuals and families most affected during the Great Depression had photographed themselves instead of being shot by government-commissioned photographers,” asks the artist LaToya Ruby Frazier, “what would their own self-representation look like?” More: NYTimes.com