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GREENFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A photographer known for his images of nude adolescents has pleaded guilty to engaging in sexual misconduct with a 14-year-old student in the mid-1970s while he was a teacher and dorm parent at a private boarding school in Massachusetts, prosecutors said.
Former Northfield Mount Hermon teacher John “Jock” Sturges, 74, was sentenced to three years of probation this week after pleading guilty in Franklin Superior Court to a charge of an unnatural and lascivious act on a child under 16, according to a statement Tuesday from the Northwestern district attorney’s office.
Sturges, who now lives in Seattle, was ordered by the judge to undergo sex offender treatment and stay away from the victim.
Sturges was 28 and a photography instructor at the school when he met the girl in 1975, prosecutors said.
The victim first went to Sturges when she was “lonely, homesick and had not made many friends,” prosecutor Frederic Bartmon said in court, according to The Recorder of Greenfield.
They bonded over photography, and he started bringing her on shoots, he said. Sturges persuaded her to pose for topless and nude photographs, and they had sex in his darkroom and in the woods, the prosecutor said.
The judge asked Sturges if he agreed with Bartmon’s account, and Sturges said he was comfortable with it, but added that “my memory, at 74, is not as good as I would like it to be,” The Recorder reported.
The victim, who appeared at Monday’s hearing via video, spoke of the effect her relationship with Sturges had on her.
“For a long time, many decades, I refused to believe that what I thought I wanted when I was 14 turned out to be a protracted form of sexual abuse and exploitation,” she said in an impact statement. “In the aftermath of my time at Northfield Mount Hermon, I fell apart. I had a complete nervous breakdown, suffered from extreme depersonalization and anxiety, to a point where I was not able to function at school or society.”
Sturges was originally charged in 2017 with statutory rape but pleaded to lesser charges.
Sturges’ photos have appeared in galleries around the world, and several books of his work have been published — though many see his images as little more than child pornography.
Federal authorities in California investigated him for child pornography in 1990, but a grand jury refused to indict him, The Los Angeles Times reported.
“They’re simply a celebration of beauty,” he said of his photos in an interview with The Associated Press in 1997 when the Christian group Focus on the Family was campaigning to have his books banned in Pennsylvania.
“We commend the survivor for her courage in coming forward and exposing the defendant’s misconduct,” said Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan. “Fortunately, the passage of time did not prevent the Commonwealth from holding the defendant accountable for his crimes, and achieving some measure of justice in this case.”
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“One of the most important elements in my work is an absence: the absence of shame” . Jock Sturges
The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography presents an exhibition of one of the more celebrated and controversial photographers of the last decades, Jock Sturges.
Jock Sturges is famous for his series of families taken at communes in Northern California and in naturist resorts in France. The photographer’s initial rise to fame was burdened by controversy. The young age of some of his models drew the attention of a conservative federal task force that raided his studio and seized his files and equipment. The investigation that ensued lasted two years at the end of which all his images and equipment were returned and no charges brought. Three years later his work was assailed again by an organized attack by extremist activists from American Christian communities who besieged bookshops aiming to seize and destroy his books. Once again his work was ultimately found to be innocent of all pornographic content or intent.
Indeed, his photographs are devoid of exploitive or negative characteristics. There is beauty there; there is also truth – but no filth. His models never undress for the photographer – they were nude before he arrived and will be again as he departs. The photographer captures his models – girls and young women from nudist communities – in the surroundings that are organic to them. “Nudity means nothing to anybody here…People are naked…because they are naturists and spend their summers in a resort dedicated to the absence of shame.”
Sturges is not interested in occasional photographs – again and again he returns to the same beaches, photographing his models over a period of many years. He is deeply involved with the lives of his models and has known most of them and their families for decades. He strives not only to show the beauty of their bodies but also to give a glimpse into their characters. “The images I like best are parts of series that I’ve started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy”. Having started in the 1970s, now he is photographing the third generation of his models. “I have many series that are 30 to 35 years long”.
Naked young people are only a part of his exploration of “a journey from child to adult” – a journey that takes many years to complete. “The better you know your models, the more likely you are to make a picture that is “true”, the artist said, “A single image could be arresting and interesting but unless it was followed by more work it seemed to pose more questions than answers for me”.
For decades, beauty in all its forms has been the main concern of the artist. He claims, “… the fact that we [humans] have an aesthetic sense is an essential part of what separates us from the lower animals”.
Definitely there is a kind of hypnotic beauty in the works of Jock Sturges. “It is my ambition to work with the nude in a natural setting where location and the lack of costume work to obscure the date, the era, time itself. The hope is to make pictures that somehow access essential human truths suspended in time”, declared the photographer.
The exhibition encompasses around 40 photographs, captured with a heavy old 8×10” Kodak Master view camera, and offers a retrospective overview of the work of Jock Sturges from the 1970s to the recent times.
Jock Sturges
Absence of Shame
7 Sep – 30 Oct 2016
Jock Sturges, Minna, Sheri and Natasha; Northern California, 1979
Jock Sturges, 2 Alexandras, Jeanne, Marine et Gäelle; Montalivet, France, 1987
Jock Sturges, Hanneke, Vierlingsbeek, The Netherlands, 1995
Jock Sturges, Alisa, Christina, Misty Dawn and Teresa; Northern California, 1993
Jock Sturges, Eva; le Porge, France, 2003
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Group of 4 Works: Misty Dawn, Northern California
Photography 8 1/2 x 11in (21.6 x 28cm)
11 x 8 1/2 in (28 x 21.6cm)
Misty Dawn, Northern California; Marine, Clermond-Ferrand, France; Nicole, Montalivet, France; Adele et Franny, Montalievet, France, 1989
Marianson et Bettina, Montalivet, 1995
gelatin silver print, printed 1995, signed, titled, dated and numbered '1/40' in pencil on the verso.
Photography 14 7/8 x 18 1/2in (37.8 x 47cm)
16 x 20in (40.6 x 50.8cm)
Marianson et Bettina, Montalivet, 1995, 1995
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1991
Photography 14 x 17in (43.18 x 35.6cm)
16 x 20in (40.6 x 50.8cm)
Flore et Frederique, Montalivet, circa 1998
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1998
Photography 18 1/2 x 14in (47 x 35.5cm)
20 x 16in (50.8 x 40.6cm)
gelatin silver print, printed later
Photography 18 x 14in (45.8 x 35.5cm)
20 x 16in (50.8 x 40.6cm)
Marine et Maia, Arles, Plage du Beau Duc, circa 1990
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1990
Photography 14 x 17 1/2in (35.5 x 44.8cm)
16 x 20in (40.6 x 50.8cm)
"Christina, Misty Dawn and Alisa", Northern California, 1988
Vanessa Fanny et Camille la riviere Dronne les Peintures France, 2001
With his background in perceptual psychology, Jock Sturges aims to reach the heart of his subjects; his color and black-and-white photographs capture people in the fullness of their beauty, individuality, and dignity. In his celebrated work, he …
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