Does it frustrate you when his style is dismissed as accidental or off-the-cuff?
"What a lot of people don’t realise is the amount of effort that goes into these photos that look like they were taken in the spur of the moment. It has taken months of negotiations in certain instances because he’s asking them to do something that they’ve probably never considered doing before. These conversations with his subjects have to be personal and about building the relationship that’s needed to get the best out of them."

And what about the photography process itself?
"Because there is this intimacy, they need to be reasonably low impact. He’s using hand held 35mm cameras with flash on top, and he has the knack of finding the right moment to take images and he knows how to seize an opportunity. At this point in he goes in with the two flash cameras and at that moment you see the subject looking ever-so-slightly hypnotised by the process."

Pettitoe, Suffolk, 2011; photo courtesy of Juergen Teller/ICA