I've become really interested in the landscape but not as landscape but more as it relates to mood and how we live and how the outside impacts on the inside. I didn't really look at the outside world during the years I was photographing the Ballad as I was locked inside my house and I lived totally inside.
Nan GoldinI don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better.
Nan GoldinI wasn't there [in U.S] when the city was bombed but it seems to have changed my friends.
Nan GoldinMy desire is to preserve the sense of peopleโs lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back.
Nan GoldinI think it's obscene that many people are starving to death from anorexia. It's been said many times, it's trite. But when so much evil is going on against, for example the Afghani people, where women are being so oppressed that a woman's body is a battlefield.
Nan GoldinThe only time this happened to me before was in Jil Sander in Berlin where they said, "We have nothing that will fit you." I said, "Yes, you do." And I found something great. This happens to me in Paris again and again and again. They don't carry anything over size 40 which is nothing, because I wear a size 42 or 44 but that's hard to find in Paris among the designer clothes. All stores are like that.
Nan Goldin