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LaToya Ruby Frazier. Grandma Ruby and Me from the series The Notion of Family - 2005. Grandma Ruby on her bed from the series The Notion of Family - 2005. Grandma Ruby and U.P.M.C. – Campaign for Braddock Hospital - 2005. Quote.
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Grandma Ruby and Me from the series The Notion of Family - 2005
Grandma Ruby on her bed from the series The Notion of Family - 2005
Grandma Ruby and U.P.M.C. – Campaign for Braddock Hospital - 2005
Quote • “The reason I obsess over photographing all of us is that I don’t have a family history. We didn’t have a photo album. We didn’t talk about the past. My mother had difficult times and maybe to protect me she didn’t want to discuss it”
Back inside the home she shared with her grandparents from Series Homebody - 2010
Quote • “Family secrets, hidden history and constant silence defined our co-existence”.
If we are all exploited Under employed Unemployed Then……. Urban Pioneer – Levi’s Campaign 2010
A contradiction to Frazier’s imagery of the marginalisation of the town’s senior citizen’s and African Americans as they struggle for economic opportunity and access to health care.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lw6r5IqxxE La Toya Ruby Frazier takes on Levi’s – ‘New York Close Up’ - 2011