I like to get rid of things; I don't collect many things. But I do keep great photography and art books.
Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.
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.
Photography used to be not for the faint of heart. Its rigors would weed out the not-so-committed pretty quickly. You had to crank the f-stop ring yourself!
Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.
When I moved to New York I started to do a lot of TV commercials. It just kind of naturally evolved from still photography to commercials.