Tourism is the biggest industry in the world.

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

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.

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

With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.

I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch and I do love big screen documentaries.

Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.