The model is just one element of the photograph. There's also the location, the light - all that junk. It helps if the girl is really good-looking, b…

- Richard Kern

A lot of the point mags are going out of business. They dropped the pay tremendously and it's all because of the internet. I used to go out once a mo…

- Richard Kern

Not for models. SuicideGirls is a mystery to me because I thought only women ran the site.

- Richard Kern

One of the elements of photography is, just by nature, journalistic. It's some kind of documentation. The most successful pictures to me are with an …

- Richard Kern

I think a lot of times photo sessions is just a test, maybe, for models. Sometimes it's for money. I'm going to shoot a girl in a couple weeks in Ita…

- Richard Kern

It's like a visual connection between the girl I'm shooting and me, a bunch of triggers. A lot of girls I'll just shoot once or twice, but with certa…

- Richard Kern

What bothers people more than anything is that I'm an old guy taking photos of them. But maybe if you look at the photos, 20, 30 years later, it's no…

- Richard Kern