I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions.

Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.

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.

Virtually always I get my best pictures when everybody thinks the shoot's done.

What I'm good at is making art.

But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.

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