I have been photographing people dancing for 20 or 30 years now, and I think I will eventually do a book of dancing photos.
One of the things I regret is that magazines now are so lifestyle-orientated that the opportunity to do bigger projects is gone. This is a serious misjudgment on the part of magazine editors.
The idea of England in decline is very attractive.
I just go out and try to make sense of the world around me.
As we travel around Britain, I am convinced most of us cannot really appreciate what we are seeing. We take too much for granted, because it is all so familiar.
TV-makers usually don't know much about photography.
Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do so. My conscience is clear.
I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.
Tourism is the biggest industry in the world.
Places change all the time, and the type of people who live there change.
Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.
My black-and-white work is more of a celebration, and the color work became more of a critique of society.
Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of propaganda.
The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.
Personally, I don't take holidays; I go on trips. My idea of relaxing is taking a trip that isn't commissioned. I'll work just as hard, but without that nagging pressure of fulfilling a commission. Now that's what I call a holiday.
Margaret Thatcher was very good for the arts in so far as it gave people a real focus for something to be against.
Modern technology has taken the angst out of achieving the perfect shot. For me, the only thing that counts is the idea behind the image: what you want to see and what you're trying to say. The idea is crucial. You have to think of something you want to say and expand upon it.
When I visited Vietnam for Oxfam, the thing that really struck me was how the local farmers had to prepare to evacuate or climb to their mezzanines with their valuable family possessions.
I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.
Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.