For years i was in the closet, and also would not disclose my own early childhood trama with sexual abuse. But i know that the king community essentially saved the life of my wife, roxan, gay. She's very public about the fact that if it weren't for the king community, she wouldn't be alive to day. And so when you when you have actual wolld models and brilliant people that were surrounded me at that time period, yet it there was like really interesting, deep discourse on consentuality. I mean, i wish everybody had that education in some ways.
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.