Katie Hedderman: December 2013

1. Who said: "The camera gave me the license to strip away what you want people to know about you, to reveal what you can't help people knowing about you"?

Diane Arbus, who was an American photographer that mainly took everyday photos of the '"freaks".

2. Doy you think that photographers tend to pray on vulnerable people?

Yes, they tend to pray on vulnerable and exposed people as they can't hide from the camera, they have no where to go.

3. What is Larry Clark's Tulsa project about?

This project is about documenting his own life in Tulsa through pictures. It was published in 1971 and featured mostly guns and drug use. It has been said that Clark was a neighbourhood photo journalist, showing what life was like in the suburbs.

4. What is the title of Nan Goldin's most renowned work?

Nan Goldin's most famous work is her photo book 'The Ballad of Sexual Dependency' which showed the normality of those treated as freaks, like transexuals.

5. What Araki photographs now? What is his "philosophy"

Photographer Nobuyoshi Araki photographs his daily life. He is most know for his work "Winter Journey" which documented the time from his honeymoon to his wife's death.

6. What was Richard Billingham's work about?

Billingham's work is about his family life, mainly focusing on his alcoholic father whom he lived with. He started taking photographs to use as a guide for painting as his subjects would rarely stay still.