If you don’t know, LaToya Ruby Frazier is an artistic photographer who uses the medium to impact both art and social justice. Last year, she opened The Liberty Portraits installation at New York’s Barclays Center, which promoted female athletes by honoring the New York Liberty’s WNBA championship team.
Several more of Frazier’s works also remained on display in 2025, including her Carnegie Prize-winning More Than Conquerors: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, which honored health workers who toiled during the COVID-19 pandemic; Monuments of Solidarity, a retrospective on injustice, healthcare and environmental racism; and, Flint Is Family, which documented the Flint water crisis. There’s many more, but I’m short on space.
Finally, she reached out to future generations of activists by lecturing at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Southern Utah University. And even with everything else going on in her life, she reached even more students through her position as assistant professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
