I chose Latoya Ruby Frazier’s photoseries Flint is Family for my photo package. The gallery, as well as the larger story, can be found at Flint is Family Frankly, this piece alone has completely raised my view of the publication up a notch. It’s obvious why Frazier is a winner of the MacArthur Genius award – her photos are striking but not overly stylized, photojournalism if I’ve ever seen it. The word that came to mind most often when I was viewing her piece was honesty. I think it would be easy to paint the women of Flint as helpless victims or unnecessarily bleak – rather, it just felt like getting a peak into the lives of normal Americans dealing with a surreal, indefensible situation.
