Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.

I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.

I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it.

In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste.

It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived I would never again pander to a magazine's requests or follow the ideas of art directors. I would only make images which were personal, which arose out of my own life.

In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.