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 never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group.

Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.

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.

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

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.

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