CHIRAQ
A piece for the Guardian from 2015 ahead of my film 'Life and Death in Chicago' airing on BBC One.
America is and will continue to be a place I find to be fascinating and frustrating in equal measure.
My late teens saw travel become a part of my life and New York become my first taste of America. This was a city I’d seen in movies and heard dissected in the music that defined my formative years.
That teenage tourist who’d taken far too many bad photos…