LaToya Ruby Frazier
African American photographer and professor
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, LaToya Ruby Frazier is an American artist and professor of photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Early life From Braddock, Pennsylvania, Frazier began photographing her family and hometown at the age of 16, revising the social documentary traditional of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange to imagine documentation from within and by the community, and collaboration between the photographer and her subjects. Inspired by Gordon Parks, who promoted the camera as a weapon for social justice, Frazier uses her tight focus to make apparent the impact of systemic problems, from racism to deindustrialization to environmental degradation, on individual bodies, relationships and spaces. In her work, she is concerned with bringing to light these problems, which she describes as global issues.
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