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

I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children.

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.

There are photographs that I don’t take now, that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

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

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

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.