Newton, Helmut

I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.

The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them.

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.

The nudes and bondage shots were my way of going beyond my own bounds. Now that I've done that, I want to return to fashion with a fresh and mature eye and do more portraits.

I just had a bellyful and realized I had shot enough nudes to last a lifetime. In fact, although I have no idea of the number, I think I photographed too many naked women.

I now have a strong reaction against the exposed female body. Nudes will no longer be a subject for me.. though I might regret saying that the next time I see a beautiful girl on the beach.

The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to.

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