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The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.

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Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

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Taking photos is a form of collecting.

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Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.

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My black-and-white work is more of a celebration, and the color work became more of a critique of society.

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Places change all the time, and the type of people who live there change.

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Tourism is the biggest industry in the world.

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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.

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I would drown in objects if I didn't have the ability to photograph them.

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I have been photographing people dancing for 20 or 30 years now, and I think I will eventually do a book of dancing photos.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Photographer

Born: May 25th, 1952

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