I knew i wanted to use the newspaper as a platform of what comes in our lives and how we deal with it. The protagonist was an artist who lived in their studio, and that's all that they could afford. And through this, they were making a peace in their piece extended with the incredible amount of fires that always happen in california too. So fire in itself is one of the most feared elements in a california. We have major wild fires burning right now. But what it is also in terms of notions of loss, init in ideas around what we all have lost through not being able to afford to buy a house,. To live on the fringe of one's ability
At 8 years old, Catherine Opie realized “that history is made within an image culture”—and here, she discusses her incredible life as a photographer driven by culture.