i was very definitive in knowing what i wanted to do, an had the mind set to go through it. Oh, the cutting is much harder than the needles to go through. Needles are fairly quick, you know, but definitely cuttings are take an enormous amount of concentration. And that's partly why i didn't want my face in the picture, is because i the andorphans are going off with my glasses off, my eyes are slightly crossed. The first thing that people look at in portraits is the people's faces, usually. And it, again, it had to remain on the body.
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.