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.

Dictators are interesting, no?

I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.

I am away so much, so I rarely see live TV, but I use iPlayer to catch programmes.

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

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

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.