Black-and-white photography is a departure from the reality we see every day, so this quality helps to carry the viewer away to a different world and create an emotional effect of the experience. I fell in love with the elements of black and white photography; the tones, textures, shape and composition. For me, it became a quest to learn how to see… I imagined the colourful world I lived in in tones of grey and became intensely aware of the play of light on subjects, which exposed their form and texture, their secrets. Learning to use my equipment was more about getting the camera to show the subject exactly the way I pre-visualised the image as opposed to getting correct exposure or making a memory. Shooting Black and White back then was a creative choice for me, and it still is today.