Russell Frederick

Russell Frederick is a self-taught Afro-Latino photographer, educator & filmmaker with over twenty-five years of experience from Brooklyn, NY. Over the past two and half decades, Russell’s work has been published & exhibited extensively in notable establishments such as Washington Post, New York Times, NBC News, NPR, the BKReader, ESPN, NUMERO, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C, the Visa Pour L’image Foto Festival Paris, France, Addis Foto in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and the MOCADA Museum in Brooklyn. In addition, Mr. Frederick has lectured, taught classes, and hosted workshops at Columbia University, the School for Visual Arts, NYU, and the United Nations Educational Science Cultural Organization in Ethiopia and South Sudan. Beyond these accomplishments, Russell’s art has been acquired into the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Gordon Parks Museum in Fort Scott, Kansas, the Library of Congress in Washington D.C., the Musee National du Mali in Bamako, Mali, and the Brooklyn Public Library.