Jock Sturges
Jock Sturges
Jock Sturgesis an American photographer, best known for his images of nude adolescents and their families...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
CountryUnited States of America
children growing-up real
I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical and psychological change. If I'm able to make pictures of children that are so real, as you follow the children over the years in any given book, and in subsequent books they get older and older and grow up, perhaps there might be something cautionary in that visual example. 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.
ifs-and people messages
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.
birthday artist age
We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.
arms pants looks
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.
shame phenomenon
As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.
children two yesterday
I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children.
erotic sensual birth
I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth.
denial found apartment
I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.
desire lasts errands
I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.
photograph harm
But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.
artist way seeing
I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.
body evolution humans
I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions.
years doubt informed-consent
When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable.
taken photograph misinterpretation
There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.