1993, Photo-planete Co. Ltd, Tokyo, Japan, 1st Edition (Japanese Edition)

“This is a book about beauty, And about love for my friends.” - Nan Goldin

Nan Goldin is an American photographer whose work often explores LGBTQ, moments of intimacy, HIV crisis, and the opioid epidemic. Goldin has began her photography journey by capturing the gay and transgender community, falling in love with drag queens. She admired and respected their sexuality. “My desire was to show them as a third gender, as another sexual option, a gender option. And to show them with a lot of respect and love, to kind of glorify them because I really admire people who can recreate themselves and manifest their fantasies publicly. I think it's brave".

The Other Side is her second published book, which this book fully captures her admiration and love to the drag queens she lived with in NYC, and to show her love and gratitude to the entire LGBTQ community as they helped her pave a new path.

“From my first night at The Other Side – the drag queen bar in Boston in the 70s – I came to life. I fell in love with one of the queens and within a few months moved in with Ivy and another friend. I was eighteen and felt like I was a queen too. Completely devoted to my friends, they became my whole world. Part of my worship of them involved photographing them. I wanted to pay homage, to show them how beautiful they were.”