tonot embraces an even the right word, but celebrate, celebrate your sexuality and your gayness. It wasn't until becoming a part of actup and queer nation that i decided to make my work publicly about my queerness. A good portion of my work was trying to be a very serious street photographer in san francisco. And then my queerness within my work at calartz was actually the dissemination and observation of master plant communities in southern california.
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.