“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…
“Photography is magic…it has incredible and really unparalleled power to represent and define people, communities, and individuals…kids see that and they want to do that…
“It was about getting the opportunity as a woman to experience the beauty of my partner and also question beauty and how beauty is constructed…
“People know that there are black artists out there but it’s just about why isn’t that work included in the overall narrative…Let’s know the history…
“The feeling that you are opening a door for someone , what you always dreamt that someone would do for you…it’s a very humbling experience.”…
“I realize I have a kind of self-consciousness about my history, about having grown up in Apartheid South Africa and mostly my work is outside…