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.
From Jock Sturges
It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.
I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions.
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.
We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.
It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.
All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.
I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.
I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.
I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.
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