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| | | LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three ActsEdited with text by Michal Raz-Russo. Text by LaToya Ruby Frazier, Community Members of Flint, Leigh Raiford, Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr.
 “A marriage of art and activism, the artist’s searing photographs reveal the human toll of economic injustice.” –New York TimesLaToya Ruby Frazier’s Flint Is Family in Three Acts chronicles the ongoing manmade water crisis in Flint, Michigan, from the perspective of those who live and fight for their right to access free, clean water. Featuring photographs, texts, poems and interviews made in collaboration with Flint’s residents, this five-year body of work, begun in 2016, serves as an intervention and alternative to mass media accounts of this political, economic and racial injustice.
In 2014, as a cost-cutting measure, the Flint City Council switched the town’s water supply from a Detroit treatment facility to the industrial-waste-filled Flint River. Forced to use water contaminated with lead at 27 times the government’s maximum threshold, Flint’s citizens—predominantly Black and overwhelmingly poor—fell ill almost immediately and many battle chronic medical conditions as a result.
Frazier first traveled to Flint in 2016, as part of a magazine commission to create a photo essay about the water crisis. During that trip she met Shea Cobb, a Flint poet, activist and mother who became Frazier’s collaborator. Divided into three acts, the book follows Cobb as she fights for her family’s and community’s health and well-being. Act I introduces Cobb, her family and their community. Act II follows Cobb and her daughter Zion to Newton, Mississippi, where they move in with Cobb’s father, Douglas R. Smiley, and learn to take care of family-owned land and horses. Act III documents the arrival of an atmospheric water generator to Flint that Frazier, Cobb and her best friend, Amber Hasan, helped set up and operate in their neighborhood.
Spurred by the lack of mass-media interest in this ongoing crisis, Frazier’s approach ensures that the lives and voices of Flint’s residents are seen and heard. Flint Is Family in Three Acts is a 21st-century survey of the American landscape that reveals the persistent segregation and racism which haunts it. It is also a story of a community’s strength, pride and resilience in the face of a crisis that continues.
LaToya Ruby Frazier was born in 1982 in Braddock, Pennsylvania. Her practice spans photography, video and performance, and centers on the nexus of social justice, cultural change and commentary on the American experience. Her first book, The Notion of Family (2014), received the International Center for Photography Infinity Award, and in 2015 she received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Frazier is an associate professor of photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and lives in Chicago.
Featured image is reproduced from 'LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts'.PRAISE AND REVIEWSBookforum David O'Neill A powerful counterargument to Susan Sontag’s contention that photography is necessarily estranging. Shot to shot and caption to caption, Frazier brings viewers ever closer to her subjects. Washington Post Robin Givhan Tells the story of Flint with understanding and dignity, without transforming the city’s residents into pathology, statistics, victims or martyrs. It speaks of a community that has grabbed hold of its destiny, even if its grip is tenuous. New York Times Lauren Christensen Together, the words, portraits and actions in this book place an ongoing disaster in broader context: American, humanitarian, human. Brooklyn Rail Naomi Elias To Frazier, Flint is a subject, not a spectacle. The kind of subject that is deserving of the kind of nuance that time and attention uncover. Aperture Jovonna Jones Expansive and elegant, with an inviting, textured cover, Flint Is Family is at once monumental and intimate. Aperture Jovonna Jones Expansive and elegant, with an inviting, textured cover, Flint Is Family is at once monumental and intimate. |
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