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

They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.

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 became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.

It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.

Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder, in some cases dramatically so, and I think they're even more beautiful.

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