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.

Photographs are interpretations of reality; as such, it is entirely subjective. Most photos are taken with an agenda, to sell something or to make a subject look better than it really is. Think of family snapshots - everyone is smiling and happy.

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 do read many of the photography magazines from the UK and abroad.

Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.

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.

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.