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.

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.

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

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

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.

I will always admit immediately to what’s obvious, which is that homo sapiens is inherently erotic or sensual from birth.