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.

If you photograph for a long time, you get to understand such things as body language. I often do not look at people I photograph, especially afterwards. Also when I want a photo, I become somewhat fearless, and this helps a lot. There will always be someone who objects to being photographed, and when this happens you move on.

I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.

Magnum photographers were meant to go out as a crusade ... to places like famine and war and ... I went out and went round the corner to the local supermarket because this to me is the front line.

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

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.

From the moment the tourist enters the site, everyone has to be photographed in front of every feature of note.... The photographic record of the visit has almost destroyed the very notion of actually looking.