I guess my influences range from all over the place, I'm one of those people that can remember an image but not where it came from or who it's by. Films, novels, magazines, adverts, work of contemporaries, everything old and new. Pretty much everything will shape my ideas and it all gets mushed together. A lot of my work has been influenced by and focuses on youth culture so wherever that goes will influence me. I also like to travel a lot. I have a strange obsession with the idea of youth in America so I travel there when I can. I guess when I was growing up I watched a lot of American programs and films and it was always so much nicer than the dull stuff over here in the UK. It also goes around a bit that when you get bored of London you go to New York, so I guess that's the attraction. The idea that anything can happen over there. I love how optimistic Americans are.
I am currently co-editing a new magazine which is due to come out later in July. It's all about the latest new faces in male modeling who haven't done anything big at the moment but are the ones to look out for. The guys of tomorrow. I've found it a really interesting project to be on the other side of the creative process. There will be a limited batch out around the world and we've been getting photographers from all over to shoot for us in Europe and North America with models from some of the best agencies around, so that's something that's keeping me busy at the moment, and that I'm really excited about.