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

My black-and-white work is more of a celebration and the color work became more of a critique of society.

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

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.

Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of 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.

Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.