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

I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found there was a great distortion of contemporary life. Photographers were interested only in certain things. A visually interesting place, people who were either very rich or very poor, and nostalgia.

I avoid Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, and if I need to communicate with someone, I email direct.

Photography is Art and Art is Photography.

I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.

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.