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RUSSELL K. FREDERICK

 

Russell Frederick is a Brooklyn-born self taught photographer of Panamanian heritage who has been photographing almost twenty-five years. He is best known for his photographs of the African diaspora of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, a project he began in 1999. As a young photographer he was mentored by Eli Reed, Joseph Rodriguez, Clarence Williams and several photographers of Kamoinge. Frederick has been the recipient of grants from the Innovation Fund, the Open Society Foundation, the US Embassy of Ethiopia, the N.Y. Foundation of the Arts, the Brooklyn Arts Council and many more.

 His work has been exhibited vastly domestically and internationally in photo festivals  Photoville, Visa Pour L'image in Perpignan, France, the Addis FotoFest in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Shanghai Photo festival in Shanghai, China and the Reportage Photo Festival in Sydney, Australia. His portraits, documentary work and photojournalism has been commissioned and published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Bloomberg News, NBC News, Slate, VICE, the Daily Beast, ESPN, AARP, Numero Homme Berlin, Ebony, the Root, the BK Reader, Der Spiegel, New York Magazine and several others.  

Frederick has photographed notables such as President Barack Obama, Grammy award winning musicians D’angelo and Lauryn Hill, Oscar Award winning actors Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee to Director Barry Jenkins. His personal work, shot largely in medium-format black-and-white, has been exhibited and collected by the Brooklyn Museum, the Gordon Parks Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the International Center of Photography, the Aperture Foundation, the NoVo Foundation, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Library of Congress, the Musee National du Mali in Bamako, Mali and the Goethe Institute in Accra, Ghana. In addition to these accolades the United Nations Educational Science Cultural Organization commissioned Mr. Frederick to conduct a series of photojournalism and documentary photography workshops to over 250 men and women in Ethiopia and South Sudan. Russell is a proud member of Kamoinge Inc. since 2004 and he is a board member of the Kings Against Violence Initiative in Brooklyn, NY where he has been mentoring young men since 2011.