British photographer Peter Marlow has worked for Magnum for the past 30 years yet has an approach that is unchanged. Marlow started his career as an international photojournalist but returned to Britain and discovered a new visual poetry that enabled him to understand his homeland. Having found this poetry, he has taken it back on the road: he now photographs as much in Japan, the USA, and elsewhere in Europe as he does in the UK.

Despite these broad horizons and the array of sights Marlow has seen to capture, his own home life is something he is still intent on shooting. In this interview with Peter I find out more about capturing those intimate, family highs and lows…