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.

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

I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

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

I know the families that I photograph extremely well and have known them for a very long time.

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.

There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed.