81 Quotes by Jock Sturges

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.

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

There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder, in some cases dramatically so, and I think they're even more beautiful.