Frazier’s image “Momme Portrait Series (Floral Comforter)” depicts her and her mother standing against a comforter with a floral print, they are both dressed casually, likely in pyjamas, and they stare emotionlessly directly at the camera. They image is split in half by each figure, like a mirror, showing them as if they are reflections of one another, allowing the viewer to compare and contrast them. The image is in black and white, contrasting the mostly block colours worn by the figures and the repeating pattern of the comforter behind.

In an interview, Frazier said “The Notion of Family responds to that call to suspend the passive aestheticism that turns abject poverty into an object of enjoyment.“, which can be seen through Frazier’s creative choices for the image. Frazier’s work often explores her family’s experience as a group of black steelworkers, focusing on the female perspective living in the industrial city of Braddock. This idea of realistically depicting poverty is shown with Frazier’s decision to show her and her mother looking a lot more casual and a little messy compared to the average portrait, focusing on showing them in natural way instead of glamorising their lives and appearances.

The comforter in the background is covered in a floral pattern, flowers often being associated with femininity and further pushing Frazier’s focus on the female experience in Braddock, “I needed to produce a photo-history book on three generations of women (1925-2014) that dealt with segregation, deindustrialisation, environmental racism, health care inequality and gentrification.” As Black women, Frazier and her mother would have likely experienced these injustices themselves and them standing against the floral comforter staring blankly at the camera could represent their dehumanisation experienced due to racism and sexism and only being seen as an object of white male desire, or could represent them reclaiming their femininity as black women are often stereotyped as masculine and undesirable, and either of these meanings fit into Frazier’s desire to depict her and her family’s history with oppression.

“When it comes to fighting racism the media are part of the problem, they perpetuate myths and stereotypes about Black people; they lie by omission, distortion and selection, they give racists inflated importance and respectability“, Frazier’s quest to combat racism through her photography is seen through all of her work, alongside this image. As said earlier, Frazier and her mother can be seen as reclaiming their femininity but it could also be said that they are standing proudly in front of the camera reclaiming their identity’s as black women, combatting harmful stereotypes against black women that spawned as a result of white supremacy and the patriarchy. Unlike how she said the media does, Frazier does not omit a single detail from her depiction of herself and her mother, reflecting them in a more natural and realistic light, using the power of photography to tell her own story instead of letting it be told by someone else.