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

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.

What I'm good at is making art.

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.

I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

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