Catherine Opie (B. 1961)

‘The S&M community was a very important part of my life through the 90s and I chose to photograph it because I didn’t like the way it was being represented. Often, when I make things it’s in relationship to creating a representation of that, that I feel needs to be in the world’ (C. Opie, quoted in, A. Blanch, ‘Catherine Opie Interview’, in Musee Magazine, reproduced at https://museemagazine.com/art-2/features/catherine-opie-interview/).