About Jock Sturges: Jock Sturges is an American photographer, best known for his images of nude adolescents and their families.
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.
I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time.
Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.
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.
I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.
When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable.
