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.

Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.

Dictators are interesting, no?

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.

Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.

Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.

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.