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If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there.
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We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.
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I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions.
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Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.
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Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. I don't shoot that any more.
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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.
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I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.
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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.
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The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they're really happy to be there.
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Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.
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When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable.
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I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that.
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What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them.
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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.
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