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LaToya Ruby Frazier first visited Flint in 2016, sent by a magazine to create a photo essay on the water crisis. During that trip, she met Shea Cobb, a poet, activist, and mother from Flint who became Frazier’s collaborator on a project that would span five years. Divided into three acts, Flint is Family follows Cobb as she fights for the health and well-being of her family and community. Motivated by the media’s lack of interest in this contemporary crisis and inspired by the collaborative work of Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem during the 1940s, Frazier’s approach ensures that the lives and voices of Flint’s residents will be seen and heard, and that their collective creative efforts will bring about a solution to this man-made water crisis.
Published by Steidl, 2022
312 pages, 27 cm 32 cm, like new
ISBN 3958297536
LaToya Ruby Frazier first visited Flint in 2016, sent by a magazine to create a photo essay on the water crisis. During that trip, she met Shea Cobb, a poet, activist, and mother from Flint who became Frazier’s collaborator on a project that would span five years. Divided into three acts, Flint is Family follows Cobb as she fights for the health and well-being of her family and community. Motivated by the media’s lack of interest in this contemporary crisis and inspired by the collaborative work of Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem during the 1940s, Frazier’s approach ensures that the lives and voices of Flint’s residents will be seen and heard, and that their collective creative efforts will bring about a solution to this man-made water crisis.
Published by Steidl, 2022
312 pages, 27 cm 32 cm, like new
ISBN 3958297536
