Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.

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.

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

My black-and-white work is more of a celebration and the color work became more of a critique of society.

All photography is propaganda.

I never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group.

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