A short documentary featuring excerpts from several of LaToya Ruby Frazier’s early video works (2009–2011), her photographic series “Notion of Family (2002), and an interview in which she speaks about her work’s engagement with the toxic geography of Braddock, Pennsylvania and her process of photographic collaboration with her mother and grandmother.
Born in 1982 in Braddock, Pennsylvania, LaToya Ruby Frazier is an artist and activist who now resides and works in Chicago. LaToya Ruby Frazier uses photography, video, and performance to document personal and social histories in the United States, specifically the industrial heartland.