Thinking about death re-provoked my particular interest for one of my favorite photographers; Nan Goldin.
Especially throughout my university years, her images had a profound effect on me. I was writing pornographic sci-fi stories at the time; this is probably why what at first attracted my immediate attention was the "truth" and the venturesome immorality in her work. Then I started to realize the special thing about her; connections she manages to build with her subjects.
These connections are so strong, that her work witnesses her subjects making love, getting married, melting day by day with AIDS radiating -maybe even burning with- intimate truth of life. She even manages to photograph blankness they leave behind after her subjects' deaths.
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