Care and Crisis in LaToya Ruby Frazier's Photography.

This article examines LaToya Ruby Frazier's photographic project *The Notion of Family* (2001–2014), focusing on how her images center care work within Black working-class households in the deindustrialized town of Braddock, Pennsylvania. Through portraits and still lifes, Frazier documents caregiving as a vital yet undervalued labor shaped by intersecting forces of race, gender, class, and economic transformation, particularly the shift from industrial manufacturing to a feminized, precarious care economy. The work challenges dominant narratives of decline by portraying the home as a site of resilience, social reproduction, and collective future-making, while also highlighting the emotional and structural burdens borne by Black women caregivers. Situating Frazier's photography within Black visual studies, social reproduction theory, and feminist ethics of care, the article argues that her images reveal care as both a sustaining practice and a terrain of political possibility amid systemic crisis.