All photography is real, isn’t it? All the photographer has to do is frame the shot and then press the shutter?

I used to try to capture what I imagined I would see before I had even stepped out into the street or stood in the landscape.

Nowadays, I just go out and shoot. I just take photographs - of anything and everything, whatever catches my eye. I don’t pause to think.

 
 
 
 

 Mike Rooke is a contemporary photographer working in the South of England but travels when he can to places or people around the world that interest him.