I know the families that I photograph extremely well and have known them for a very long time.

My hope is that the work is in some way counter-pinup. A pinup asks you to suspend interest in who the person is and occupy yourself entirely with looking at the body and fantasizing about what you could do with that body, completely ignoring how the person might feel about it.

There are photographs that I don’t take now, that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will.

I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.

What I'm good at is making art.

I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.