Latoya ruby frazier photography

Artists and writers respond to the photographer’s arresting self-portraits.

Like the camera’s technical process of exposure, Frazier brings things to light that would otherwise remain obscured. “I create visibility through images and storytelling,” she says in the show’s materials, in order “to expose the violation of… human rights.” Her black-and-white photographs are unsentimental witnesses to the furloughed American dream.

The pioneering labor activist speaks with the artist and organizer about the confluences of their work—and why America is worth fighting for

The documentary photographer honors those who turn their energies to a social good. And our critic says this artist does the same.

An abandoned Beaux Arts train station in Detroit. A wheezing old theater in Youngstown, Ohio.

For the last 12 years, LaToya Ruby Frazier has photographed her family as it deals with reality on the American post-industrial front lines in Braddock, Pennsylvania. The images, she says, show a f…

LaToya Ruby Frazier

Biography LaToya Ruby Frazier born in Pittsburgh PA in 1982 received her BFA in Photography and Graphic Design in 2004 at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. She received her MFA in Art Photograph…

Review by: Billy Anania Latoya Ruby Frazier uses a camera to chart the systematic breakdown of oppression on ordinary people, and show how big paradigm shifts affect civil discourse. Three collections of Frazier’s photography are spread through three floors of Gavin Brown’s enterprise in Harlem.

In her work in photography, video, and performance, LaToya Ruby Frazier addresses contemporary topics such as inequality in access to healthcare and the societal and personal consequences of deindustrialization. Combining documentary modes with portraiture, she presents candid… more