Arly Navarro
Art and Women
January 28, 2020
Mini Post #1: Latoya Ruby Frazier
Latoya Ruby Frazier is an artist from Braddock, Pennsylvania. In her artwork, her photography projects, she portrays the American Industrial decay, healthcare and environmental justice. These photographs make capture injustice in a way that it is right in the face of the audience. She is raising awareness of the contemporary social/political issues in society. While growing up in Braddock, she viewed many of the same injustices occur within her community and documented them through her photography.
Frazier's most famous artwork was from her project, The Notion of Family. This project was a 14-yearlong series of portraits taken in Braddock, demonstrating how her own family is impacted by injustice in America. The vulnerability and intensity is depicted in her artwork. One of her pieces from The Notion of Family shows her own mother in a Braddock hospital bed, dying from pancreatic cancer. In her other artworks, she reminds everyone about the water crisis that is still occurring in Flint, Michigan. She states that the photograph frightened her because it was a scene that would look like it would come from 1968 but it was taken in 2016, when Obama was about to come to Flint.
Link: http://www.latoyarubyfrazier.com/work/
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| LaToya Ruby Frazier, From The Notion of Family, 2002 |
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| LaToya Ruby Frazier, A Child showing me a wanted poster of Michigan Governor Rick Snyder Outside North Western High School awaiting the arrival of President Barack Obama, 2016 |
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