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.

From the moment the tourist enters the site, everyone has to be photographed in front of every feature of note.... The photographic record of the visit has almost destroyed the very notion of actually looking.

If you photograph for a long time, you get to understand such things as body language. I often do not look at people I photograph, especially afterwards. Also when I want a photo, I become somewhat fearless, and this helps a lot. There will always be someone who objects to being photographed, and when this happens you move on.

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

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

Unless it hurts, unless there’s some vulnerability there, I don’t think you’re going to get good photographs.

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