Only a very small proportion of us take those excesses with us into later life. In the age before everyone had a camera, it was worthwhile, in my opi….

The big downside to the global village that the Internet has created is that nothing has time to grow out of the public gaze and, even more dangerous….

When I gave up my office job and became a full-time professional photographer, my fortunes certainly improved markedly. We moved away from the counci….

In the age of social media, you have the selfie and some people - not always young people - seem obsessed with showing the world what their face look….

My parents, though very loving, were not what one would ever describe as outgoing and therefore when I was young I was quite shy and socially awkward….

That's one of the wonderful things about the whole process of photography - eye contact can be very revealing..

When I was starting, I was very much influenced by the straight up, eyes to camera style of August Sander. He is really the only one. Had I known the….

I preferred that option, where my camera (and by proxy, me) could look them straight in the eye. The way they reacted to me was always interesting. S….

To me, the counterculture was always what I grew up with the hippies in the late '60s. But, however you define it, it's really the excesses of youth ….

It's more about subtracting every single buck from the tourists that still flock there. Gentrification and the need for developers to maximize their ….

Many nightclubs from this era were very loud and very dark. Plus some of the best ones were incredibly crowded. To begin with, I could seldom get bac….

Nowadays everyone has a camera and the Internet means everything is instantly accessible. Unlike some photographers, I don't see this as a problem. I….

Things are very different now because a lot of those little clubs don't exist. In Soho for instance, where nearly half my nightlife photographs were ….

I started out, in the mid-'70s, taking photographs of rock bands that I liked but not because I really wanted to photograph them. Initially, I was pr….

I went from being an underpaid ad man to quite a successful photographer in a very short time. Success breeds confidence and as soon as I got properl….

The reason why so many of my photographs in the book were taken in stairwells and corridors was that that was the only bit of spare space available a….

Once I became a photographer, it stopped me being scared or intimidated by gangs of young men of whatever stripe. Initially, I could hide behind my c….

Anyway, the fetish crowd, compared to some of the people that hung out with the skinheads, was all pussycats..