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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Industrial Residue in the Rust Belt: LaToya Ruby Frazier and Taylor Renee Aldridge in Conversation
California African American Museum
Streamed live on Sep 16, 2021
To inaugurate The Last Cruze exhibition at CAAM, the artist LaToya Ruby Frazier will be joined by CAAM Visual Arts Curator Taylor Renee Aldridge to discuss Frazier’s ongoing work in documentary film and photography. In various interconnected bodies of work, Frazier uses collaborative storytelling with the people who appear in her artwork to celebrate working-class individuals and to address topics of industrialism, environmental justice, workers’ rights, human rights, and family. The Last Cruze extends this impulse by offering a monument to the workers of the former General Motors factory in Lordstown, Ohio, which was “unallocated” in 2019, leaving many of the factory workers unemployed. Frazier and Aldridge will discuss Black Americans’ contributions to the history of industrial advancement in this country, and how post-industrial decline continues to negatively impact working-class communities in Rust Belt cities, like Frazier’s hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania.
LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Last Cruze and related programs are presented in partnership with USC School of Architecture, USC Roski School of Art and Design, and USC Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative.
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Courtesy of: CAAM (California African American Museum)
Chatting the Pictures: From Breonna Taylor’s Side Window
Chatting the Pictures
with Michael Shaw
Every two weeks, Chatting the Pictures present short highlights of a lively discussion between Michael Shaw, publisher of Reading the Pictures, and writer, professor and historian, Cara Finnegan. Each video is dedicated to analyzing a significant picture in the news.
This portrait of Breonna Taylor’s Sister, Juniyah Palmer, was taken by LaToya Ruby Frazier for Vanity Fair. Palmer was living with Breonna, but she wasn’t home the night Louisville police launched the fatal raid that killed her sister. LaToya Ruby Frazier is well known for her photographic work on family history, and social and economic justice. We discuss the picture as a powerful emotional and forensic record of an event that seems to defy due process.
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Courtesy of: Reading the Pictures
In conversation: LaToya Ruby Frazier with Renée Mussai & Daniel Morgan with Karen Redrobe
The Photographers’ Gallery
Streamed live on Sep 30, 2020
Presented in collaboration with Kraszna-Krausz Foundation (KKF), celebrate the outstanding contributions to photography and moving image publishing. This extended live-streamed event (2 hrs) begins with a rare chance to hear from Chicago-based artist LaToya Ruby Frazier, whose eponymous book has won this year’s KKF Photography Book Award. She will be in conversation with curator Renée Mussai. This will be followed by an exploration of the work of Hannah Frank with Daniel Morgan. Morgan is the editor of Frame by Frame: A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons by Hannah Frank, which is the recipient of the KKF Moving Image Book Award 2020. He will be joined by art historian, Karen Redrobe. Each discussion will be followed by an opportunity for audience Q&As.
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Courtesy of: The Photographers’ Gallery