From butch alter egos to radical images of motherhood, the photographer rises to the challenge of capturing her community in imposing and glorious style From butch alter egos to radical images of motherhood, the photographer rises to the challenge of capturing her community in imposing and glorious style C atherine Opie has done for butches what Hans Holbein the Younger did for the Tudor nobility. Since she graduated in the late 1980s, amid the Aids crisis, Opie has made portraits of her