All of the work that I've been doing over the last five years is about warfare and the way war makes the world we live in. War shapes and designs our society. The landscapes that I look at are created by warfare and conflict. This is particularly true in Europe. I went to the city of Cologne, for instance, and the city of Cologne was built by Charlemagne - but Cologne has the shape that it does today because of the abilities and non-abilities of a Lancaster Bomber. It comes from what a Lancaster can do and what a Lancaster can't do. What it cannot do is fly deep into Germany in the middle of the day and pinpoint-bomb a ball bearing factory. What it can do is fly to places that are quite near to England, that are five miles across, on a bend in the river, under moonlight, and then hit them with large amounts of H.E.. And if you do that, you end up with a city that looks like Cologne - the way the city's shaped.

So I started off in Afghanistan photographing literal battlefields - but I'm trying to stretch that idea of what a battlefield is. Because all the interesting money now - the new money, the exciting stuff - is about entirely new realms of warfare: inside cyberspace, inside parts of the electromagnetic spectrum: eavesdropping, intelligence, satellite warfare, imaging. This is where all the exciting stuff is going to happen in twenty years' time. So I wanted to stretch that idea of what a battleground could be. What is a landscape - a surface, an environment, a space - created by warfare?

We tourists all ended up at the same coded, iconic location. We used our digital cameras to take our photos from the carefully constructed locations (a scenic platform, boat, foreshore walkway, or walking trail). Our images were similar kinds of pictures and they had a lesser quality to the carefully crafted tourist ones that we had seen as we traveled to the desired iconic location.

I was actually taking a photo outside my house when a cop demanded to know my identity. His attitude was one of suspicion, which remained in place even when I gave my name and address and pointed to where I lived. He continued to demand proof of my identity I refused.

But it was a little sad to see, night after night, in all these buildings, that it was really just single people between the ages of twenty-five and forty, tired after work, sitting on the sofa watching TV. I was a bit disillusioned. I thought it would be more exciting than that.

I don't put photos on Flickr with a view to selling them. Many photos i couldn't sell because of copyright issues or existing licensing deals.

But a bit like bloggers using google adsense on a personal blog, it wouldn't hurt to get a bit of extra pocket money should someone wish to buy a license to use a photo i already took.

I already upload everything in hi-res, i title, caption and keyword the images. It's all ready to go.