“We talk to other community organizations all the time, they are like, oh how do you get such great community engagement, we do events all…
“When you’re 3 or 5 years old and you’re understanding that your grandma fits bras, you don’t think about it in a sexual way…I just…
“That’s the thing I get most excited about with photography is what you can hide from the viewer and how you can frame your work…
“That’s when I came to learn more about Graciela Iturbide, Tina Modotti, Lola Alvarez Bravo…that kicked in this interest or appetite in what else is…
“If the bottom line isn’t scaring you, you haven’t thought of everything, and because of that we don’t go after enough funding…” Jackie Battenfield is…
“You know I had a meltdown and went to hang out in the desert for a couple weeks…came back…I talked to my brother and he’s…
“I was a criminal, I lived that criminal lifestyle, and I really didn’t give a crap about anybody’s feelings…but something changed in me and photography…brought…
“I literally went from, I wasn’t able to say the words out loud…my mom is gay, to basically writing it in the Times and screaming…
“…and to me that is the irony in all of this…In the act of wanting to be alone, and disappearing, he actually became famous.” Amani…
“I remember saying, ‘That, that’s it, I almost died for that…it’s a nothing photograph.’ That’s how I would have been remembered, he died to make…