The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.
From Catherine Opie
There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.'
I want to seduce my viewers and be able to hold them with the work. Much of that is done in terms of formalist ideas that I bring to the work.
I'm a complete supporter of Obama and kind of in love with him.
My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.
I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.
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