What I'm good at is making art.

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

No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.

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

I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.