I was always interested in photography because it makes a picture.

In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.

Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.

I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.

East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.

But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.

People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.