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 named in TIME’s list of 100 Most Influential People of 2024
TIME100 by Lynn Nottage Photography by Sean Eaton. Courtesy of Carnegie Museum of Art. LaToya Ruby Frazier is an eloquent storyteller, making visible the landscapes and lives of working people. With honesty and empathy, her photographs—soon to be displayed in a solo show at New York City’s MOMA—force us to confront how disenfranchisement, corporate greed, […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier Raises Her Lens Against Environmental Racism and Healthcare Inequity in America
Arts Help by Zarah Owais From Braddock, Pennsylvania, photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier uses her lens to capture the true essence of the Black experience in America. Her work tells the story of struggle but also that of resilience and strength as she exposes the cracks in the American water sanitation and health care system that marginalized populations […]
Baltimore Museum of Art acquires LaToya Ruby Frazier installation honouring community healthcare workers
The Art Newspaper by Torey Akers The installation spotlights health workers that helped underserved communities in Baltimore at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) has acquired LaToya Roby Frazier’s arresting installation More Than Conquerors: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland 2021-2022 (2022). The piece consists of 66 inkjet prints featuring […]
Kinship Amid a Loneliness Epidemic
Hyperallergic by AX Mina Through multiple mediums, Kinship demonstrates the ways that a number of artists had to navigate COVID-19’s influence on their process The United States is in the midst of a loneliness epidemic. A 2021 study from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education pointed out that nearly a third of Americans report being lonely. This is […]
2023 CPW Vision Awards
June 3, 2023 5:00 PM – 8:30 PM G.W. Van Slyke & Horton Building 25 Dederick Street Kingston, NY The 2023 Vision Awards will honor four people who have significantly impacted photography and CPW itself. The June 3 celebration will be the first public event at CPW’s future headquarters, the historic G.W. Van Slyke & […]
Photography Report: Imaging Racial Capital
e-flux Criticismby KJ Abudu View of “LaToya Ruby Frazier: More Than Conquerors: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland 2021-2022” at Gladstone Gallery, New York, 2023. Image courtesy of Gladstone Gallery. That photography has become one of the most banal visual interfaces in twenty-first-century life is no new observation. Every day, millions of […]
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. Read more… […]
Tony Norman: LaToya Ruby Frazier’s photos are a witness and a mirror
NEXT Pittsburgh by Tony Norman One day, artist LaToya Ruby Frazier’s body of work will be considered key to understanding how many Americans learned to look at their fellow citizens with a little more empathy and compassion in the first half of the 21st century. Installation view of LaToya Ruby Frazier, More Than Conquerors: A […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity at MoMA
May 12, 2024 – September 7, 2024 The Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53rd Street New York, NY 10019 The Museum of Modern Art announces LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity, the first museum survey dedicated to the artist-activist, on view at MoMA from May 12 through September 7, 2024. For more than two […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier at Gladstone Gallery
More Than Conquerors: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland 2021-2022 March 2, 2023 – April 15, 2023 Opening reception: March 2, 5pm – 7pm Gladstone Gallery530 West 21st Street New York, NYPress Release Gladstone is pleased to announce its first exhibition with LaToya Ruby Frazier. The show presents the artist’s most recent […]
NYC-ARTS: Noguchi Museum & LaToya Ruby Frazier
A visit to the Noguchi Museum in Queens to explore the legacy of world-renowned sculptor, Isamu Noguchi. Then a profile of photographer and video artist LaToya Ruby Frazier, whose work follows in the social documentary tradition of Walker Evans and Gordon Parks. Courtesy of: NYC-ARTS.org Aired: 2/23/2023 on Thirteen|WNET New York Public Media
Trinity Talks: Art as a Medium for Change
Visual art is a doorway to new insights and revelations. It can challenge the expected narrative and transform our way of perceiving and understanding, if even for a moment. Join Trinity as we welcome artists who invite us to see our relationships, culture, and environment in a new way—calling us to respond and take part […]