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.

You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.

Photography is simply a function of noticing things.

A picture should be looked at - not talked about.

Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.

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

The advice I would give to any photographer - young, old or in-between - is to explore anything visual because this is, after all, how you express your artistry. Look at paintings, movies, drawings, sculptures - look at anything visual and try to integrate that into your visual sense. After that, go out and take pictures and keep on taking pictures!