I'll go to do a shoot, I'll spend five or six hours at the beach with people, and when people think I'm all out of film, then they really relax and I get my good pictures.

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.

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

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

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

What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them.

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.