Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.

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

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.

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.

Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.

In 1982 I bought the newly released Makina Plaubel 55mm fixed-lens camera. With this shift from 35mm to 6 x 7, I also changed from black and white to color. Later that year, I started my project on New Brighton called The Last Resort. However, the first project I shot in colour was composed of urban scenes from Liverpool. This image was on the second roll of film. It's the first good photo I made in this new chapter of my work.

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