I love curating, because I’m lucky and privileged that I have a platform and I can share my discoveries with other people.

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...

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

I pride myself in being an aficionado of the British seaside. Throughout my career, I have visited and worked in many of the famous British resorts, from Great Yarmouth to Largs.

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.

Filming is always a challenge because I’m not used to it. But I approach it head-on. I’m not technically brilliant, but it’s the spirit that counts.

Taking photos is a form of collecting.

I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.

Tourism is the biggest industry in the world.

My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down.

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...

Sepia in particular tends to make everything look a bit romantic and almost sentimental, hence the fact that it remains such a popular choice for wedding photographs.

In New York, you have the street; in the U.K., we have the beach. I end up being like a migrating bird, being attracted to it.

The ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain’s saving grace.

If there is any jarring at all in my photographs, it’s because we are so used to ingesting pictures of everywhere looking beautiful.

I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.

We live in a difficult but inspiring world, and there is so much out there that I want to record.

One of the things I regret is that magazines now are so lifestyle-orientated that the opportunity to do bigger projects is gone. This is a serious misjudgment on the part of magazine editors.

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...

My biggest television weakness is ‘Dragons’ Den.’

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

My profile is bigger in Europe than it is in the U.K.