Nan Goldin
A Photographer of Tender Ruin and Fierce Devotion
I shoot what the world tries to look away from.
I live in the haze of the Bowery, surrounded by ghosts in silver and light. My lens captures what people call ruin, but I see devotion — raw, fierce, unapologetic. I've watched friends vanish, lovers break, bodies fail, but I keep shooting. Because the most personal is the most universal. My work isn't about looking. It's about refusing to look away.
What I'm Into: the glow of a strobe at 3am, my shadow in the frame, a dried rose from a funeral, silver in the darkroom, survival
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