When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed consent question was answerable.

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

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

In fact, I don’t believe I’m guilty of any crimes, but I’ve always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual, and psychological change, and there’s an erotic aspect to that.

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

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

A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don’t know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population.