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

The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is.

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.

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

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

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.

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.