Flint, 1,105 Days and Counting Man-Made Water Crisis, LaToya Ruby Frazier

MacArthur “genius,” photographer, visual artist, and activist LaToya Ruby Frazier demands justice for the communities of Flint, Michigan with a flag that is also a timer, drawing from her 2016 work Flint is Family. Frazier spent five months with three generations of Flint women who suffer yet still thrive as they face the water crisis in Flint—“the worst man-made environmental catastrophe in recent national memory.”

LaToya writes: “The number 1,105 will be the exact amount of days Flint residents have lived without new pipes since the lead leaching took place. It will be 1,105 days and counting the day of the May 3rd event. (And yes, that is a real photograph I took in Flint, where they were keeping locked up pipes behind barbed wire.) Exact location and company: American Pipe 4906 Horton Avenue, Flint MI 48505.”