I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.

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

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

The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy.

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

Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.