The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.

I'll go to do a shoot, I'll spend five or six hours at the beach with people, and when people think I'm all out of film, then they really relax and I get my good pictures.

Physical beauty is such a strange thing.

The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy.

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

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

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