Catherine Opie
Creative Direction by Jan-Willem Dikkers
Images by Austin Irving
Born in Sandusky, Ohio in 1961, Catherine Opie is a Los Angeles-based fine art photographer and professor of photography at UCLA. Opie’s work is a mix of personal and political, informed by her identity as a lesbian, and includes extensive documentation of niche communities as well as self-portraits. Her work has been collected by museums such as the Guggenheim and the Museum of Contemporary Art (LA). Opie most recently released 700 Nimes Road, a photo book documenting the home and possessions of Elizabeth Taylor.