Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.

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.

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

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.

Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.

I go straight in very close to people and I do that because it's the only way you can get the picture. You go right up to them. Even now, I don't find it easy. I don't announce it. I pretend to be focusing elsewhere. If you take someone's photograph it is very difficult not to look at them just after. But it's the one thing that gives the game away. I don't try and hide what I'm doing - that would be folly.

I have been photographing people dancing for 20 or 30 years now, and I think I will eventually do a book of dancing photos.