Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

All of my marriages lasted seven years.

You don't study photography. You do it.

Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

It's just seeing - at least the photography I care about. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Anyone can learn how to develop. It's how you organize what you see into a picture.

My 'work' is about seeing not about ideas.

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.