My 'work' Is About Seeing Not About

If You've Got No Responsibility And Don't Have To Generate A Certain Amount Of Cash Each Month, And Can Live On A Shoestring, And Are Ambitious Enough, Then You Might Have A Chance. You Can Be Dedicated But That Is No Guarantee That You'll Make It. I Rely On A Hunch, A Little Luck, And Some Cunning.

I Don't Like Explosions. I Don't Mind Progress. But Digital Photography Has Made Every Man, Woman, Child And Chimpanzee A Photographer Of Sorts And Consequently Has Numbed Down The General Quality Of Photographs.

Everybody's Got To Do Something... I'd Been On My Own Since An Early Age And I Thought I Better Find Something To Do To Buy Biscuits And Stuff. From High School Onwards I Was Earning My Way With Photography, One Way Or Another, Working In Darkrooms And Taking Pictures Of Weddings, Neighbors' Children And So On.

I've Been Around So Long, Most Editors Think I'm Dead.

I'm Almost Violent About That Stuff - Electronic Manipulation Of Pictures. I Think It's An Abomination. I Reject It All. I Mean, It's Ok For Selling Corn Flakes Or Automobiles Or For Taking Pimples Out Of Elizabeth Taylor's Face, But It Undermines The Thing That Photography Is About, Which Is About Observation And Not About Manipulation Of Images.