I think my parents had in mind that I would settle down at quite a young age, but I decided that being a housewife in a big country house wasn't for me.

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Some Through Celebrity

You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when you've had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we don't know what is real or fake anymore. It doesn't matter.

- Alison Jackson

Though False Complacency

Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.

- Alison Jackson

Shared Religious Celebrity

The religious imagery and fairytales that formed our shared cultural references have been replaced by the cult of celebrity. Marilyn is the sex goddess, Camilla Parker Bowles is cast as the wicked witch, Che Guevara is the revolutionary. Celebrities have become visual shorthand for narratives that shape our lives.

- Alison Jackson

Think I Think Through

If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text.

- Alison Jackson

Understand Death Mourning

When Princess Diana died, I couldn't understand why people were mourning her death in such an enormous, hysterical way when they didn't actually know her for real.

- Alison Jackson

Only Hate Parking

The only people I really hate are parking attendants.

- Alison Jackson

Queen Extent Blank

I am fascinated by the Royal Family because they are shrouded in mystique, and the Queen, and to a certain extent William, represent fabulous blank canvases. I find the Prince of Wales less fascinating because he spills the beans and we know too much about him.

- Alison Jackson

Own Inform My Own

Of course, my own political beliefs inform the ideas I come up with.

- Alison Jackson

Other Very Lenses

Among other things, I use a Samsung mobile phone, a very bad quality video camera, and an old Olympus with extremely bad Sigma lenses.

- Alison Jackson

Think About Bit

A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.

- Alison Jackson

Tell Kind Believe

Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can't really believe that a picture can tell us any kind of truth at all.

- Alison Jackson

Think I Think Own

I think privacy is important, and it's important you don't bore people with your own boring self.

- Alison Jackson

Some Art Films

I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I also make television programs, books and some appetizing, all with the same concept.

- Alison Jackson

How Particularly Rely

I'm particularly interested in how you can't rely on your own perception.

- Alison Jackson

Through Traditional Way

I'm not satirical in a traditional way. What I do is more about creating caricatures and cartoons. I am commentating on the nature of how we live through photography, and how you can twist an angle to create a different perception of a person.

- Alison Jackson

Very Months Childhood

I had a very outdoorsy childhood. I was athletic and used to ride and do dressage. I could ride almost before I could walk. There is a picture of me at 18 months old sitting happily on the back of a donkey.

- Alison Jackson

Old Certainly Young

I can't remember exactly how old I was when my parents gave me my first camera, but it was a Canon, and I was certainly far too young to have such a good camera.

- Alison Jackson

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