Pure Goldin.

My passion for photography started with The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, a collection of photographs by Nan Goldin.

Her work is bleak, savage, unabashed and stunning.

Goldin famously described The Ballad of Sexual Dependency as "The diary I let people read".

The Ballad documents the turbulent lives of Goldin and her urban family during the Aids-riddled-eighties.

The images hurt. You don't want to look for too long, but you do, and my god does it feel good.