Nan Goldin

Nan Goldin-

• Nan did a series which included her own experience of sexual abuse, this series of photographs contains images of sex, drugs, violence, domestic abuse, and more. She used these images so that she could record the truth of these women's view points, a view point that had rarely been explored before, mostly because the victims rarely speak out about their abuse. But in her image and the others in the series you can see the the pain and abuse that she is openly showing us. We can see in her own image that she has suffered pain with her bruise and her blood shot eye.    

• Heart shaped bruise- This is a photo filled with multiple meanings this image depicts a rape that has befell the women in this image, in this case sex can be used as a way to hurt a woman when they are at their most venerable, but normally sex in considered to most a act of love. So the heart in this image is showing that caring and loving side that sex should bring to a couple but the bruising represents the pain and the physical and mental scaring that rape leaves on anybody that is unfortunate enough to have it happen to them. 

• Born 12th september 1953, she is an American photographer. Nan was born in Washington D.C but grew up in Boston Massachusetts. 
• April 12th 1965 she and her parents were put to the test when her sister aged just 18 commited suicide. 
• She was introduced to camera at age 15 in 1968 when she enrolled at Satya Community school in  Lincoln. Following this her first solo photographic show was in Boston in 1973 it was based on her journey through the cities gay and transsexual communities. She graduated from the school of the museum of fine arts Boston/ Rufts university in 1977 when she was mostly using cibachrome prints. 
• After university she moved to New York and began following and documenting the post punk new wave music scene as well as the vibrant gay community, she often presents her work in the form of a slide show.