“It started out basically when I was wondering around 42nd street. There was this famous place on 42nd Street and 8th Avenue called ‘Show World’. It was a peepshow place. On the first floor were real women. You could go in a booth, pay your money and they danced and took their clothes off or whatever. On the ground floor it was basically booths with dirty movies. Downstairs, in the basement, were the femme-queens. I went downstairs one day and that was the beginning. I wanted to take pictures of them. So my early images are these portraits of femme- queens. That’s how I started.”
Rob Perrée meets Gerard Gaskin.
