But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.

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

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.

It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.

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.

As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.

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