Chicagoans is a first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. This week’s Chicagoan is Yvette Marie Dostatni, convention photographer.
“When you’re at one of these conventions, you’re in a bubble. It’s so surreal that it becomes real, you know? So when you photograph it, it doesn’t seem bizarre anymore; it just seems like you’re cataloging a culture. I went to the Everything to Do With [Sex] show, and there was a porn star there who was selling replicas of her butt. There was a long line of men waiting to buy them. I remember somebody grabbing me and saying, ‘Here, take a picture of her.’ This porn star looked so happy to be holding her virtual ass.
