I avoid Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, and if I need to communicate with someone, I email direct.

Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.

I avoid Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, and if I need to communicate with someone, I email direct.

My black-and-white work is more of a celebration and the color work became more of a critique of society.

I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found there was a great distortion of contemporary life. Photographers were interested only in certain things. A visually interesting place, people who were either very rich or very poor, and nostalgia.

Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of propaganda.

The easy bit is picking up a camera and pointing and shooting. But then you have to decide what it is you’re trying to say and express.