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“Shea brushing Zion’s teeth with bottled water in her bathroom” (2016/2017)
Miami’s Community Newspapers
December 21, 2018
By: News Travels Fast
LaToya Ruby Frazier
Flint is Family
Jan 30-Apr 14
Explores the water crisis in Flint, Michigan and the effects on its residents.
The photographer and MacArthur Fellow spent five months with three generations of women – the poet Shea Cobb, Shea’s mother, Renée Cobb, and her daughter, Zion – living in Flint, witnessing their day to day lives as they endured one of the most devastating man-made ecological crises in U.S. history. Citing Gordon Parks’ and Ralph Ellison’s 1948 collaboration “Harlem is Nowhere” as an influence, she utilized mass media as an outlet to reach a broad audience, publishing her images of Flint in conjunction with a special feature on the water crisis in Elle magazine in 2016. Like Parks, Frazier uses the camera as a weapon and agent of social change.
Courtesy of: Miami’s Community Newspapers
