20 18 is a 22 minute movie containig 800 photographs about a frustrated artist who, unable to buy their own home, starts burning down beautiful houses. It was also the last peace that i made in my west adams studio behind my house because i had moved, finally, i was going to move to a bigger studio. So using my good friend who i photographed for years, pig pen awhos, whose name, real name is stashfila, piggy and i have a very, very close relationship. And i asked pig pen to starr as the protagonist of this film. But it also is a trans body. It's a queer body. One of the hardest economical groups
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.