When I started as a photographer I did portraits. Never in a studio, often in people’s homes, or outside in the street, or in the greenhouses of botanical gardens. I did them for newspapers and publishing houses and publications and also for Amnesty International, and after a while no-one ever asked me to do anything else. I loved it, but sometimes grew frustrated: I do know how to point my lens in other directions!

But now it’s the opposite: I very seldom am asked to do portraits. But when someone does, I still know how to do it!