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'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'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.

Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.

The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.

The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they're really happy to be there.