Yoko Ono at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2000

I heard Yoko was coming to Sydney for the Biennale, so I asked the PR if she could contact Yoko to have a private portrait session. Yoko replied that no, she was a bit shy, she didn't know me. So, I turn up at the press conference thinking, I'm going to get this portrait. I opened my camera case and I said, ‘Look, I've brought a backdrop with me, give me five minutes with her.’ Of course, there's two security guards there, so I got them to hold the black cloth behind Yoko, took the photographs and then she said, ‘Would you like a cup of tea or coffee?’ So, we sat down, we had some coffee and we just talked and talked about London, the old days, and everything. And then there's a banging on the door ‘Robert, I told you, five minutes.’ The door opens the PR's bursting in, there's TV crews waiting outside. I said, ‘Okay, I'm sorry.’ Yoko had given me her address in New York to send a couple of prints to because she wanted to see them. So, I did. And she sent me a beautiful Christmas card with a John Lennon drawing on it, thanking me for the photograph and saying that she really liked it.