Queer Uber-Photographer Catherine Opie Q&A in Vice Magazine

"Pig Pen" by Catherine Opie

-- Lauryn Siegel

While I always appreciated the wild candid photographs of skater boys with visible erections found on the pages of supposed über-guide to hipster culture, Vice Magazine, I sorta lost interest after hearing that their former editor was a strident Republican sympathizer a few years back. Plus, I grew tired of reading a constant stream of low-grade misogynist and homophobic-ish slurs validated by their overall “ironic” tone. That said, I knew that a bunch of the writers and editors housed in their Brooklyn-based offices were, in fact, raging homos and feminists themselves. Jeez, the irony just doesn’t stop!

It looks like one of those Vice-workers, Amy Kellner (famed feminist and creator of "The Cute Show" on Vice’s TV Network, vbs.tv) has grown tired the Vice norm as evidenced by her recent interview with seminal queer photog Catherine Opie, who recently had a massive retrospective at The Guggenheim. This informative Q&A finds Opie candidly reflecting on her former life within the SM community in light of her newer role as mother, partner, tenured professor and art world megastar. The article also features a great sampling of Opie’s spellbinding photographs of superhot butch dykes and girls with needles stuck in freaky places. Go Amy...and, umm, go Vice!?

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