My hope is that the work is in some way counter-pinup. A pinup asks you to suspend interest in who the person is and occupy yourself entirely with looking at the body and fantasizing about what you could do with that body, completely ignoring how the person might feel about it.

That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.

If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there.

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

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

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

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