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Artist Statement of: Nan Goldin "My work originally came from the snapshot aesthetic...Snapshots are taken out of love and to remember people, places, and shared times. They're about creating a history by recording a history". (Nan Goldin) The photographs I produce enable you to see another world. The passion and complexity I aspire to capture causes you to question yourself by taping into your raw emotion. Through my photographs, I enable you to enter into a realm that creates an intimate encounter. My subjects are my circle of friends and love ones, for this reason my work and my life are locked together. I have the deepest respect for those whom I have captured and I carefully try to avoid presenting them in an inappropriate or inconsiderate manner. What I capture is the moment of truth. I put faces to statistics and make you realize that there are real people behind inconceivable num