Weds Oct 6 saw the cocktail opening of my photography exhibit, Face Off, at Hong Kong's Foreign Correspondent's Club, a retrospective of my street portrait photography. The work which spans 21 years in 12 countries

Portraiture can be intimate, provocative and powerful. Approach a stranger on the street and you are confronting them, isolating them, pulling them from their comfort zones and invading their personal space. Sometimes you get complete compliance, sometimes you get violent reactions

I began this collection of street portraits in the late 1980’s on the streets of New York, a great training ground, because in New York you get into confrontations with people on an hourly basis. I figured if I could do it successfully there, most other places would be easy……how wrong I was!