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Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.
Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.
They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.
I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.
I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.
In fact, I don't believe I'm guilty of any crimes, but I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual and psychological... →
It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.
That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.
But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.
I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.
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.
There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.
Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.