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 on Lee Friedlander’s Ohio Factory Valley Series
A photographer finds “healing” in the representation of Black working-class histories.
Photographer and activist LaToya Ruby Frazier sees the legacy of the Black women of America’s working class in Lee Friedlander’s “Ohio Factory Valley” series. Through her personal memories and close observation, these lesser-known photographs become “knockouts” that empower the women they depict.. On the occasion of her timely exhibition “Monuments of Solidarity” at MoMA, Frazier traces the trajectory of documentary photography, from these two inspiring photographs to her approach of collaborative “visual healing.”
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Courtesy of: The Museum of Modern Art
Life Stories with LaToya Ruby Frazier
LaToya Ruby Frazier Interview From HBO’s “A Choice of Weapons Inspired by Gordon Parks”
Life Stories
Individual Lives. Creative Impact.
LaToya Ruby Frazier was born in 1982 in Braddock, Pennsylvania. Her artistic practice spans a range of media, including photography, video, performance, installation art and books, and centers on the nexus of social justice, cultural change, and commentary on the American experience. Frazier uses collaborative storytelling with the people who appear in her artwork to address topics of industrialism, Rust Belt revitalization, environmental justice, access to healthcare, access to clean water, Workers’ Rights, Human Rights, family, and communal history. Frazier’s work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at institutions in the US and Europe, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art; The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston; Musée des Arts Contemporains, Grand-Hornu, Belgium; CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France; Carré d’Art – musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes, France; The Frost Art Museum, Miami; The Musée d’art Moderne, Luxembourg; and The Newcomb Museum at Tulane University, New Orleans. In 2015, her first book The Notion of Family (Aperture, 2014) about how her family survived environmental racism in historic steel mill town Braddock Pennsylvania received the International Center for Photography Infinity Award. In 2020, Frazier was named the inaugural recipient of the Gordon Parks Foundation/Steidl Book prize for her book Flint Is Family In Three Acts about how working-class families survived the man-made water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Her work is held in numerous public collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem; Brooklyn Museum; Whitney Museum; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and many others. Frazier is the recipient of many honors and awards including fellowships from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s MacArthur Fellows Program (2015), TED Fellows (2015), and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2014).
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THE-NEW-SOCIAL-ENVIRONMENT #785
LaToya Ruby Frazier: More Than Conquerors
Featuring LaToya Ruby Frazier and Jessica Holmes, with Madison McCartha
Monday, April 10, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
Visual artist, photographer, and advocate LaToya Ruby Frazier joins Rail Art Editor Jessica Holmes for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Madison McCartha.
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Courtesy of: The Brooklyn Rail