from another Russian news outlet:
The 69-year-old photographer has been in hot water over his works in the past. In the early 1990s, his San Francisco studio was raided by FBI officers, who seized his equipment, but eventually pressed no charges against Sturges. In 1998, Alabama and Tennessee made fruitless attempts for his new book to be classified as child pornography.
Creepy.
Creepier:
Sturges boasts that he maintains a relationship with his subjects and their families, and does not exhibit a print without their permission.
“I have a sincere and ongoing relationship with these women and their families,” he said.
In at least one case, that relationship went far beyond the camera. According to a 1995 New York Times article, when Sturges was 28 he had a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old model named Jennifer Montgomery