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 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.

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

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

Dictators are interesting, no?

Filming is always a challenge because I'm not used to it. But I approach it head-on. I'm not technically brilliant, but it's the spirit that counts.

I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.