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.

For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it's a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that are going to make you money.

You have to take a lot of bad pictures. Dont' be afraid to take bad pictures... You have to take a lot of bad pictures in order to know when you've got a good one.

I am kept awake by the list of possibilities for shooting more photos and deciding what I must prioritise next.

I go straight in very close to people and I do that because it's the only way you can get the picture. You go right up to them. Even now, I don't find it easy. I don't announce it. I pretend to be focusing elsewhere. If you take someone's photograph it is very difficult not to look at them just after. But it's the one thing that gives the game away. I don't try and hide what I'm doing - that would be folly.

Unless it hurts, unless there’s some vulnerability there, I don’t think you’re going to get good photographs.

With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.