How many worlds exist alongside your own?
Nan Goldin’s camera lens has always been turned towards the lives invisible to the mainstream.
Born in 1953, Nan rose to prominence in the early ‘80s for her intimate snapshots of queer life.
Misty and Jimmy Paulette in a taxi, 1991
Greer and Robert on the bed, NYC, 1982
The photos were originally presented as slideshows set to music. And her first audiences were the friends and chosen family that she photographed.
Nan’s perspective gained political significance as LGBTQI+ communities were ravaged by the AIDS epidemic.
If silence equalled death, then so did invisibility. Nan illuminated a hidden queer world with vivid flash photography in all its pain and glory.
Gotscho kissing Gilles, Paris, 1993
Misty in Sheridan Square, NYC, 1991