LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint Is Family In Three Acts

“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.Fra