LaToya Ruby Frazier: A creative solution for the water crisis in Flint, Michigan
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Uma solução criativa para a crise aquífera em Flint, Michigan
LaToya Ruby Frazier focuses her camera lens on her family and her hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania, to explore themes of family, inequality, health care and environmental racism. Full bio
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to produce a photo essay
um ensaio fotográfico
no estado de Michigan,
three generations of women
três gerações de mulheres
duas melhores amigas,
Amber Hasan and Shea Cobb,
Amber Hasan e Shea Cobb,
Shea Cobb became the central figure
Shea Cobb se tornou o centro do ensaio
e a filha de oito anos de idade, Zion.
Shea's school bus routes.
de forma obsessiva.
making sure she was studying.
de que ela estava estudando.
intimate facet of Shea's life.
da vida de Shea.
covered with signs that said,
tinham cartazes que diziam:
my camera to photograph it.
para fotografá-los.
to see that in America,
quando percebi que, nos Estados Unidos,
that say "Whites" or "Blacks only,"
"Brancos" ou "Somente para Negros",
have been forced to drink with,
têm sido obrigados a beber,
com água engarrafada,
water bills in the country
de água mais altas do país
with deadly legionella bacteria.
com a bactéria letal "Legionella".
bacteria-contaminated water
e a contaminação da água por bactéria
em Braddock, na Pensilvânia,
in my hometown, Braddock, Pennsylvania,
lutamos contra o câncer
"The Notion of Family,"
"The Notion of Family",
to survive environmental racism,
para sobreviver ao racismo ambiental,
e às emissões químicas sem regulamentação
that were being deregulated
Steel Corporation,
"United States Steel Corporation",
asthma and infant mortality rates
com os maiores índices de asma
to the Flint River,
has turned its back upon the river.
viraram as costas para o rio,
um lugar para jogarem o lixo deles".
for dumping chemicals in the Flint River
por despejar resíduos químicos
came out in August of 2016,
"Flint is Family", saiu em agosto de 2016,
was no longer headline news,
nas manchetes dos jornais,
than a series of photographs on my part
das minhas fotografias para levar alívio
in Vehicle City.
como Flint é chamada.
over our mothers and grandmothers.
com nossas mãe e avós;
over our battles with lupus.
a luta contra o lúpus.
in each other's life
com nossos esforços criativos.
artist collective The Sister Tour,
de artistas "The Sister Tour",
a safe space for Flint artists.
um espaço seguro aos artistas de Flint.
solo, Flint is Family, aqui em Nova York,
"Flint is Family,"
at Gavin Brown's Enterprise
na rua 127 West.
the facade of the building,
se aproximava da fachada do edifício,
feito com três grandes negativos,
of three large color negatives
by The Sister Tour.
da Nestlé, da The Sister Tour.
company in the world,
de água engarrafada do mundo,
out of aquifers in Lake Michigan,
dos aquíferos do Lago Michingan,
millions of liters of water
milhões de litros de água
to clean water at all.
acesso à água limpa.
that I used to raise money
para arrecadar fundos
to different venues
pudesse ir a vários lugares,
sobre a crise que acontecia.
in the public eye
o assunto em evidência,
que eram hasteadas pelo país.
across the country.
Amber emailed me with the news
Amber me enviou um e-mail dizendo
dropped all criminal charges
de Michigan tinha retirado
da crise aquífera de Flint,
municipais e estaduais
as serious as manslaughter.
tão graves quanto o de homicídio.
ficar de braços cruzados,
esperando que se faça justiça
for the men, women and children in Flint.
e crianças de Flint.
that she met in Puerto Rico,
tinha conhecido em Porto Rico,
atmosférico de água
atmospheric water generator.
aos representantes da cidade de Flint.
in the city of Flint.
the machine for relief to Flint at all.
em trazer o gerador para ajudar a cidade.
from a military base in Texas
em uma base militar no Texas
that kind of money lying around.
solo exhibition "Flint is Family,"
exposição Flint is Family,
from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation,
da Fundação Robert Rauschenberg,
generator arrived to Flint, Michigan,
de Moses West chegou em Flint,
between Marengo and Pulaski,
entre Marengo e Pulaski,
right now, operating.
three miles from downtown
a 4,83 Km do centro da cidade,
a alimentos saudáveis e de água limpa.
as a violent, poor community.
como uma comunidade violenta e pobre.
sobre a missão de salvamento:
water rescue mission:
to the people in Flint.
para a população de Flint,
a como cuidar dele
take ownership of the machine.
to bring all their containers
para trazerem os galões
as they can stock up on,
sobretudo antes que o inverno chegue.
in freezing temperatures.
em temperaturas negativas."
through a high-volume air filter.
usando um filtro de grande capacidade.
of water per day.
to walk up to the machine
entre as 9h e 20h, diariamente,
in long lines for bottled water.
para comprar água engarrafada.
interviewing people, asking them,
e entrevistei as pessoas:
and his machine in [your] community?"
Moses e o gerador que ele inventou?
living without access to clean water?"
the knowledge and technology
o conhecimento e a tecnologia
prior to the machine coming,
antes da chegada do gerador,
de cabeça e problemas estomacais,
so sick to her stomach,
the lead-contaminated water
lhe causou queda de cabelos.
indisposta e tinha tonturas.
she's had energy and strength.
a consumir a água do gerador,
that someone from Texas cared.
do Texas se importasse com eles.
he thought to himself,
God intended water to be."
que a água fosse".
containers to refill
a barraquinha de churrasco dele.
and his atmospheric water generator
e seu gerador de água atmosférico
access to clean water.
ter acesso à água limpa.
contra as doenças, a morte e a destruição.
de vidas poderíamos salvar
of lives we could save
Newark, New Jersey,
em lugares como Newark, em Nova Jersey,
e coloquei o dedo no disparador
over the shutter release,
their first sip of clean water.
água limpa pela primeira vez.
of joy and righteousness.
de alegria e de justiça.
para Shea, ela me escreveu:
that you bring to my city."
luz para a minha cidade".
"A luz já estava lá, dentro de vocês".
since I've been photographing in Flint,
to render a poetic justice.
uma câmera pode extrair a luz
and turn a negative into a positive.
em algo positivo.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
LaToya Ruby Frazier - PhotographerLaToya Ruby Frazier focuses her camera lens on her family and her hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania, to explore themes of family, inequality, health care and environmental racism.
Why you should listen
TED Fellow LaToya Ruby Frazier uses photography, video and performance to address issues of industrialism, rustbelt revitalization, environmental justice, healthcare inequality, family and communal history. Some of her work, which features images of her mother and grandmother (Grandma Ruby) was published in her first book, The Notion of Family, which received the International Center for Photography Infinity Award.
She has exhibited her work widely in the United States and elsewhere, with solo exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, Seattle Art Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. She is an assistant professor of photography at the School of Art Institute of Chicago, having previously taught at Yale, Rutgers and Syracuse University.
LaToya received her BFA in applied media arts from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and her MFA in art photography from Syracuse University. She was the Guna S. Mundheim Fellow for visual arts at the American Academy in Berlin in 2013 and won a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2014. She is also a 2015 MacArthur Fellow.
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