Even as a child, i would tell my mam that i was going to have 12 children. For someel yei ye, that would have been too many. The quandary also, i think, began even before you committed to photography as a profession. At one point, after you graduate high school, you considered becoming a kindergarten teacher and even went to a virginia intermont college to study early childhood education. I mean, that's in thinking about the pathways of life, you were on that pathway. O way i was, i profoundly love children, like i really really love children. And i suppose that's even the other aspect of queerness is, how was i
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.