In the months since the Presidential election, the photographer has become interested in “how we maneuver the pathways in between the political chaos.”
These early Mapplethorpe works, which will be offered at auction in October, are a reminder of what, at his fruitfully bohemian moment, transgression consisted of.
It was a new experience for Mike Osborne, “as a photographer and just as a human,” to experience a storm’s devastation at the same time that its victims did.