Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality. In the cookery pages, the food always looks amazing, right? Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.
I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.
Tourism is the biggest industry in the world.
The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.
In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work in black-and-white. Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.
I don't like being flattered. It doesn't suit my English sensibilities. Remember, we are the great country of understatement.
