To uptight moralists my work is perverted pornographic shit but to me these images are like pools at midnight reflecting waves made up of the moments of my life overflowing with unbearable quantities of love, sex and grief. A kind of dark explicit photographic diary. But synchronicity connected this work to Sen. Jesse Helms. For Helms, that meant any art that was explicitly sexual, homosexual or radically sexual. Helms considered so dangerous that it had to be banned by law from governmental support.
Some people just have all the luck.
But in a way it's also a compliment. Helms is right. My work is dangerous. The title of the photograph is 'Aussie boy'. I rarely take photographs of people smiling.