I get up early and open my emails, write cheques, and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done.
Sepia in particular tends to make everything look a bit romantic and almost sentimental, hence the fact that it remains such a popular choice for wedding photographs.
If you go to the supermarket and buy a package of food and look at the photo on the front, the food never looks like that inside, does it? That is a fundamental lie we are sold every day.
Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.
The idea of England in decline is very attractive.
Sometimes you feel uncomfortable taking a photograph, but that's all part of the job.
When someone says to you, 'Oh, I don't take a good picture,' what they mean is they haven't come to terms with how they look. They take a fine picture, it's just that their image of how they think they look is not in touch with the reality.
The ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain's saving grace.
Dictators are interesting, no?
My biggest television weakness is 'Dragons' Den.'
I never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group.
I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch, and I do love big screen documentaries.
I photograph people as I find them. But people have issues about how they look.
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.
Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.
You can't shoot in sepia, so converting into black and white and then into brown makes everything feel less real.
The trouble with Hollywood films is that they always have a pleasant ending.
If you go to the supermarket and buy a package of food and look at the photo on the front, the food never looks like that inside, does it? That is a fundamental lie we are sold every day.
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.
The trouble with Hollywood films is that they always have a pleasant ending.