Photographing each other in Hemdia's house, Sinai, Egypt

I find it difficult to meet someone for the first time, enter their home, start photographing and then leave with images that I might never be able to give them. It seems like one of the worst forms of colonization.

In 'Skating to Antarctica' Jenny Diski writes of her experience with other tourists: 'Photography is a modern, miniature form of colonization. There were about seventy people wandering about this deserted spot, plenty of room and lots of places to go. It didn't represent a crowd. But all the time, I and others had to duck and swerve to avoid the triangle of the world the pointed lens were capturing. The world was being snapped up all around me. 'Sorry', 'Excuse me' we apologized to each other as we stepped across the invisible boundary belonging to each photographer.'

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