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.

Taking photos is a form of collecting.

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

You can't learn passion, either you've got it or you haven't.

I am not as cross about Thatcher now as I was in the 80s. Begrudgingly, I can see that some of her policies helped modernise Britain.

Unless it hurts, unless there’s some vulnerability there, I don’t think you’re going to get good photographs.

Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.