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A: Everywhere. In the supermarket, on the street. The important distinction is that I refer the potential model to one of my books in a neighborhood store. If they like the images I suggest they call. I tell them "I pay the models well" and they "must have double IDs".

Q. What is your most annoying experience connected to your work?

A: I meet a potential model and she calls and we arrange for her to come to the studio and I am there waiting and she doesn't come or call.

Q. Do you think you are a pornographer and if you don't, why not?

A: I'm not a pornographer because no two models are shot in the same manner. I factor in the person that I'm photographing. I spend time with the person I am to shoot. In a sense it is a collaboration. Pornography for me is the same `spread' shot taken over and over again. The focus is on the pussy and not on the message in the photo. It's like watching mindless TV over and over. That's pornography. The viewer doesn't have to participate. He or she doesn't involve one's imagination. I want the viewer's imagination to be stimulated by my photographs.

Q. Have you always taken photographs of women?

A: Yes but not until 1988 did it become my profession. I became a `girlie' photographer in 1988 in NYC. Before that I did photojournalism for NY Times, Der Spiegel and portraits for Vogue and Elle magazine. There were years I photographed the American Indian. Years I photographed emerging and established artists. Now there is almost a decade of photographing women.

Q. What direction are you going in?