Nan Goldin

Nan Goldin is famous for the intimate photographs she takes of her 'family'.  When she was eleven years old her older sister committed suicide and this event affected her deeply.  She moved between various foster families and attended a free school.  There she met two people who would become life long friends.
  Goldin has said that her photographs are her memory.  It is her way of remembering everything.  The Ballad of Sexual Dependancy shows hundreds of photos of her daily encounters, many of the people she photographs pop up again and again.  She had manny transvestite friends who only went out at night so for many years Nan was essentially a nocturnal being.
 She documents her relationships with brutal honesty. One of the images shown is of her face after she was beaten by her boyfriend.  Another image is of a friend crying.  Goldin was not afraid to photograph everything, and was lucky to have such friends who allowed her to do so.

    references: V&A museum
                       Ballad of Sexual Dependancy