RUSSELL K. FREDERICK
Russell Frederick is a Brooklyn-born self taught photographer and educator of Afro-Panamanian heritage who has been photographing for twenty-five years. He is best known for his soulful B&W film photographs of the African diaspora of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, a project he began in 1999. Since that time, Frederick has been the recipient of grants from the Innovation Fund, the Open Society Foundation, the U.S. Embassy of Ethiopia, the N.Y. Foundation of the Arts, and the Brooklyn Arts Council. Frederick has lectured and taught workshops for the United Nations Educational Science Cultural Organization in Ethiopia and S. Sudan, NYU, the School of Visual Arts, the International Center of Photography, Columbia University, and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism to be brief.
Russell’s visual activism has been commissioned and published in the New York Times, NPR, the Washington Post, PBS, Bloomberg News, Slate, the Daily Beast, the Undefeated, ESPN, Numero Homme Berlin, NBC News, PDN Magazine, Black Shutter, Ebony, the Root, and many more. Frederick has photographed notables such as President Barack Obama, fashion icon Dapper Dan, Grammy award winning musicians Anthony Hamilton and Jill Scott and Oscar award winning actors Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee to name a few. His Bed Stuy work has been acquired to the permanent collections of the Gordon Parks Museum in Fort Scott, Kansas, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Musee National du Mali in Bamako, Mali, the NoVo Foundation, the Open Society Foundation, the Library of Congress and the Brooklyn Historical Society amongst others.