“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…
“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…