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

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.

I am away so much, so I rarely see live TV, but I use iPlayer to catch programmes.

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.

I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch and I do love big screen documentaries.

I get up early and open my emails, write cheques and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done.

I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.