Physical beauty is such a strange thing.

I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.

Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.

The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very very collaborative.

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

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.

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.