The knack is to find your own inspiration, and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.

I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up.

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.

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.

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.

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

Taking photos is a form of collecting.