I was recently interviewed for radio in relation to the "Thanksgiving" show [2001] at the Saatchi gallery that I was part of. The interviewer said that people in London were very disturbed that I showed a picture of myself battered ("Nan One Month after Being Battered", 1984) and they thought that I set it up. I was accused of deliberately putting on a wig for that particular picture.
Nan GoldinFor me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caressโฆ I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul.
Nan Goldin