The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative. Jock Sturges Read Quote
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. Jock Sturges Read Quote
The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species. Jock Sturges Read Quote
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. Jock Sturges Read Quote
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. Jock Sturges Read Quote
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. Jock Sturges Read Quote
As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon. Jock Sturges Read Quote
