I've been taking photographs since I was a teenager, and fashion has taught me a lot more about photography. It's definitely inspired me.
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
Photography is always a kind of stealing. A theft from the subject. Artists are assaulters in a lot of ways, and the viewer is complicit in that assault.
Why are all the artists so dead-set on distorting? It seems to be a reaction against photography, but I'm not sure.
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.
Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.
I was writing when I was very young, and then I became interested in everything - I wanted to do photography. I wanted to act. I wanted to write plays, and then I wanted to film and to paint, but I felt that film had a condition that reunites everything.
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
I think photography is closest to writing, not painting. It's closest to writing because you are using this machine to convey an idea. The image shouldn't need a caption; it should already convey an idea.