I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the next day.
Catherine OpieThe reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.
Catherine OpieI always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.
Catherine OpieNature is a dream state at this point, that we almost don't have a real relationship to it unless it's people living off the land and killing our own food and going for it.
Catherine Opie