I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.

There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed.

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

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.

I use an 8 x 10 view camera. All other cameras are just toys.

The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very very collaborative.