\u2018This is Courtney doing her makeup on the \u201995 Lollapalooza tour. I was documenting my generation being hijacked by corporate greed \u2013 and destroyed following the sacrificial death of Kurt Cobain\u2019<\/p>\n
When I was going through the archives for my rock photo book, I came across my first ever self-portrait, at P\u00e8re Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, in front of Jim Morrison\u2019s grave. I am a 13-year-old on an awkward trip with my cool father. He had no respect or interest in Jim Morrison, and that photo is like every photo I\u2019ve taken from that moment on \u2013 I\u2019m trying to take agency over what is happening. Photography was the absolute first thing that gave me a feeling of having my own say. It became a way of creating my own universe, one that I could trust. It was absolutely my first love.<\/p>\n
I was sidetracked into music in a beautiful way by these radical women and a countercultural movement, so the subject of my photographs just changed. It was me within this environment, on stage with Hole, backstage with these luminary, wild people, travelling across the world. My photography followed and morphed with me, and my camera documented my generation being hijacked by corporate greed and destroyed in the wake of the sacrificial death of Kurt Cobain. It was a generational call to document the Lollapalooza \u201995 tour, where this photo was taken, for us to understand later. It was also when the wild alternative freaks crossed into the mainstream.<\/p>\n
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