Charles Gatewood (2002)

“It’s my job to go out and take tough pictures.”

I got to know San Francisco-based photographer Charles Gatewood in the early 2000s. He used to be (and still remains) a household name in the underground (so called); shooting iconic portraits of sexual and body-modification pioneers, but also of counter-cultural iconoclasts during the 1960s and onwards. But there was another connection for me, too, tha…