Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.

The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.

I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up.

Magnum photographers were meant to go out as a crusade ... to places like famine and war and ... I went out and went round the corner to the local supermarket because this to me is the front line.

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.

Photography is Art and Art is Photography.

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