I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.

Jock Sturges

Categorized in : Artist Skills Concerned

Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.

growing-up book children

The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very very collaborative.

photograph photography people

When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed consent question was answerable.

informed-consent doubt years

Virtually always I get my best pictures when everybody thinks the shoot's done.

best-picture done thinking

There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will.

mammals artist animal

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

ambition people interesting

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.

mother pregnancy children

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.

shrinking media artist

I use an 8 x 10 view camera. All other cameras are just toys.

cameras use views

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.

see red sin people