If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate 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.

The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they're really happy to be there.

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.

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.

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