A thought on AIDS, the Eighties and what was lost

“In the ’80s, there was a certain freedom, and a sense of immortality, that ended with that decade. AIDS cracked the earth. With everyone dying, everything shifted. Our history got cut off. We lost a whole generation. We lost a culture. We didn’t just lose the actors, we lost the audience.”
— Nan Goldin, photographer, from a piece on her work in the Guardian