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

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.

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.

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

Dad had pictures of himself everywhere,

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.