In fact, I don’t believe I’m guilty of any crimes, but I’ve always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual, and psychological change, and there’s an erotic aspect to that.

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.

Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.

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.

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.

Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder, in some cases dramatically so, and I think they're even more beautiful.