LaToya’s work for New York Times Magazine mentioned in Artforum
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s portrait of Simone Landrum at home with her sons, Dillon (left) and Caden, during her pregnancy, November 2017.
Artforum
The Year In Review
December 2018
By Lanka Tattersall
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2. Linda Villarosa, “Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies are in a Life-or-Death Crisis.” with photographs by LaToya Ruby Frazier (New York Times Magazine, April 11)
An unsettling, urgent, and deeply instructive piece of journalism—essential reading for everyone thinking about race, gender, healthcare, or inequality. Villarosa explores why black women are at least three times as likely as white women to die from pregnancy related causes in the United States, a crisis that cuts across social economic differences. Frazier’s photographs document the relationship among a mother, her children, and her doula, and capture how expanded forms of family can effectively support a healthy birth in the face of profound risks.
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