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.

Photographs are interpretations of reality; as such, it is entirely subjective. Most photos are taken with an agenda, to sell something or to make a subject look better than it really is. Think of family snapshots - everyone is smiling and happy.

I get up early and open my emails, write cheques and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done.

For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it's a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that are going to make you money.

Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.

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.