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Modern technology has taken the angst out of achieving the perfect shot. For me, the only thing that counts is the idea behind the image: what you want to see and what you're trying to say. The idea is crucial. You have to think of something you want to say and expand upon it.

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Of course, New Brighton is very shabby, very rundown, but people still go there because it's the place where you take kids out on a Sunday.

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Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do so. My conscience is clear.

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

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We live in a homogenized world, where it's hard to get excited when everything is slick and professional. The interesting things are the dull things.

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There are elements of irony in my work, of course.

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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.

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If you go to the supermarket and buy a package of food and look at the photo on the front, the food never looks like that inside, does it? That is a fundamental lie we are sold every day.

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When someone says to you, 'Oh, I don't take a good picture,' what they mean is they haven't come to terms with how they look. They take a fine picture, it's just that their image of how they think they look is not in touch with the reality.

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Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Photographer

Born: May 25th, 1952

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