When visiting Berlin in 2011 I took a photograph of an ice cream van parked in Bernauer Straße by the Berlin Wall. 14 years later the van is still there. I spoke to the owner Wilfried Alex who told me that he has been selling ice cream for the last 40 years from his ex post office van.

It was a normal day at Cinecittà film studios sometime in 1978. I was working with my friends Paolo, Sandro and Fabio out of Teatro Cinque (sound stage No. 5). We were part of the special effects department specialising in model making, stop frame filming and photography.

In 1978 whilst wandering around the Jewish ghetto in Rome I took a photograph by the Portico d'Ottavia. Two ladies looking out at their neighbourhood from their balconies. A typical Roman scene of the era. A couple of prints were made in my darkroom in Rome at the time, but after moving back to England the negatives were left undisturbed for years and were moved from house to house in London and in Suffolk.

I took this photograph in 1978 whilst I was working at Cinecitta' film studios in Rome. At lunchtimes I would sometimes go to the bar that was in the studio complex to grab a sandwich and a drink. On one particular day the bar was full of film extras on their lunch break dressed as priests, cardinals, Swiss guards and altar boys. I shot a few frames with the 35mm camera I always carried with me at the time.

A few months ago I was approached by film maker Shaun Forsdyke who wanted to make a film about me. A short form documentary profiling my work and process. I had never done anything like this before and was very happy to oblige.

Two reasons for this. Film photography and printing. For too long I have been sitting in front of a computer editing images.

The news is full of bad news. People killing each other all over the world, usually in the name of god or for greed. I try to keep up with what is going on in the world but sometimes the news is so depressing that I just want to switch off and ignore what is happening and get on with my own life and forget the suffering of others.

I haven't written a blog for over a year and a half. Apart from laziness, the belief that nobody cares about what I think and that it serves no real purpose, I think I have a good excuse.

I've been taking Polaroid photographs for a long time. The earliest images were taken in the mid '70s with SX70 cameras. The SX70 is a wonderful piece of innovative design that has stood the test of time. Although Polaroid film has been discontinued a relatively new company called The Impossible Project have started re-making film for the SX70 and also the later 600 type cameras. A lot of the old cameras that had been relegated to the bottom of the wardrobe or loft are now being refurbished. Because of Impossible Project film availability there has been renewed interest in Polaroid cameras and instant photography.

One of the reasons there are currently so few photographs on my website is that I have so many images that it is hard to know where to start. Between colour and monochrome negatives, transparencies, digital photographs, prints and Polaroids I probably have over 100,000 images.