Jock Sturges (/ˈstɜːrdʒɪs/; born 1947) is an American photographer, best known for his images of nude adolescents and their families.
I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.
Physical beauty is such a strange thing.
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.
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'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.
When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed consent question was answerable.
No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.
I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions.
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 know the families that I photograph extremely well and have known them for a very long time.