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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Flint Is Family In Three Acts
The Gordon Parks Foundation Exhibition Announcement April 13 – June 24, 2022 Flint Is Family In Three Acts is a twenty-first-century survey of the American landscape that reveals the persistent segregation and racism that haunts it. LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts (2022) Co-published with The Gordon Parks Foundation Series edited by […]
8th Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2022: Currency
Engaging the theme of Currency from various perspectives, the 8th Triennial of Photography Hamburg opens on May 20, 2022 with twelve exhibitions presenting over 75 artists. From appraised colonial-era photo albums to poetic reveries, social documentary and conceptual approaches to photography, the exhibitions explore the myriad ways in which photographs are produced, circulated, and interpreted. […]
The Gordon Parks Foundation/Steidl Book Prize of 2020
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts Co-published by The Gordon Parks Foundation and Steidl Series edited by Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr. Edited by Michal Raz-Russo Contributions by Leigh Raiford NOW AVAILABLE through Gladstone Gallery (US) and Steidl (EU) LaToya Ruby Frazier is a visual artist known for collaborative storytelling with the people […]
TIME’s 20 Best Photobooks of 2021
TIME LightBox Section TIME Photo Department LaToya Ruby Frazier’s The Last Cruze chosen by TIME as one of the best photo books of 2021 The Last Cruze by LaToya Ruby Frazier is an extensive, collaborative body of work that focuses on General Motors autoworkers in Lordstown, Ohio, who are members of the United Auto Workers […]
On Gordon Parks’ Legacy And Black Photography Today
ESSENCE Entertainment By Aramide Tinubu LaToya Ruby Frazier, Devin Allen and Jamel Shabazz are the Subject of the New Documentary, ‘A Choice Of Weapons: Inspired By Gordon Parks,’ Debuting On HBO. By the time Gordon Parks shot his first photograph for Life Magazine, his mother had died, racism had forced him out of his hometown […]
Photographer Gordon Parks inspired a new generation of artists
Los Angeles Times Entertainment & Arts By Deborah Vankin “A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks” debuts on HBO Monday night, a date that commemorates the photographer’s late November birthday. The film is less a chronological telling of Parks’ life story (the 2000 HBO documentary “Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon […]
A Visual History of Gordon Parks’ Art and Activism
Black Girl Nerds Movie Reviews By Cassondra Feltus HBO’s ‘A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks’ Is a Visual History of the Photographer’s Art and Activism This new documentary delves into the life and work of photographer, filmmaker, writer, composer, and activist Gordon Parks. Directed by John Maggio (Mr. Saturday Night), the documentary chronicles […]
‘A Choice Of Weapons: Inspired By Gordon Parks’
BlackFilm.com By Alex McGaughey Today HBO released the official trailer for the documentary, A Choice Of Weapons: Inspired By Gordon Parks. The film explores the enduring legacy of photographer, writer, composer, activist and filmmaker, Gordon Parks, and spotlights his visionary work and its impact on the next generation of artists. The film debuts Monday, November […]
The Last Cruze is one of ‘Our Favorite Photobooks of 2021’
Clément Chéroux Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of Photography Michelle Elligott Chief of Archives, Library, and Research Collections MoMA selects LaToya Ruby Frazier, The Last Cruze (The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, 2020) as one of ‘Our Favorite Photobooks of 2021’ [MoMA is] launching a new yearly celebration of the photobook. The […]
The Royal Photographic Society announces 2021 award recipients
LaToya Ruby Frazier was awarded the 2021 RPS Honorary Fellowship Award for her exceptional and innovative work connected to the art or science of photography. Read more… Courtesy of: The Royal Photographic Society
Photography That Focuses on Those Who Are Often Not Seen
The New York Times Fine Arts & Exhibits special report By Geraldine Fabrikant From New York to Los Angeles, Black, L.G.B.T.Q., Native American and women artists are exhibiting works that highlight their communities and personal perspectives. During the pandemic, Isolde Brielmaier, curator at large at the International Center of Photography, began wondering how Black photographers […]
Review: A remarkable ode to union workers in LaToya Ruby Frazier’s ‘The Last Cruze’
Los Angeles Times Art Review By Christopher Knight, Art Critic Unions built the American middle class in the decades after the Great Depression of the 1930s, the common wisdom goes, and a mountain of evidence backs up the claim. Yet things have been bleak in that regard for many years. One example is the centerpiece […]