My way in for photographing people is really their work. I'm always interested in what people make, and then I photograph the person. Sometimes the person is a disappointment. But that's the risk. It informs me a lot about the character of a person if I know their work first.

My way in for photographing people is really their work. I'm always interested in what people make, and then I photograph the person. Sometimes the person is a disappointment. But that's the risk. It informs me a lot about the character of a person if I know their work first.

I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and that's how I used to work when I was 17 or 18 in Holland.

I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.

Photography has taken me from isolation.

With photography, you are lucky if you get people to look at your pictures at some point. There's no formal way to show them.

There's a lot about records that you cannot feel from a CD.