I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.

After following the crowd for a while, I'd then go 180 degrees in the exact opposite direction. It always worked for me.

If you're not a curious person, you're certainly not going to be a good photographer.

Everybody's got to do something... I'd been on my own since an early age and I thought I better find something to do to buy biscuits and stuff. From high school onwards I was earning my way with photography, one way or another, working in darkrooms and taking pictures of weddings, neighbors' children and so on.

Working myself into a position of total versatility, so that I can do anything I want to do at the time I want to do it. Whether I do it or not is another question.

It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.

The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.