i felt an incredible need to talk about the times that we are living in. It's just completely inconceivable that as a culture and a community we could allow this. I think that those who can afford an education should actually pay for an education. But i am completely opposed to going into debt for education. We need to further endow more positions in the art department. And so by endowing more positions, we can create an ability to potentially give two to three year contracts that include medical insurance. And then we're allowing a pool of really amazing young artists to be able to have their first opportunities to teach at an university like u c l a.
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.