Minimalist John Pawson turned to architecture after failing as a Buddhist monk and a sports photographer. As a book of his photographs goes on sale, he spoke to Dezeen about how he discovered his love of colour through Instagram.

Called Spectrum and published by Phaidon, the book contains pairings of photographs taken by Pawson, whose studio is based in King's Cross, London but who travels extensively.
The images are arranged according to their colour, shifting from white at the start of the book, running through the colours of the rainbow, to black at the end.
"It's just things that I think are nice together," said Pawson, whose photographs have gained him an Instagram following of over 135,000 people.
The idea for Spectrum originated from Pawson's Instagram Both the title of the book and the rich colouring of the images in it are a surprise given Pawson's reputation for austere, often monochromatic buildings.
Pawson, 68, is famed for his minimalist architecture. The interior he created for London's Design Museum is uniformly oak lined; a two-tone Welsh countryside retreat called the Life House has a broody exterior and a pasty interior; and the windows of his St Moritz Church in Augsburg, Germany, are enveloped in slices of onyx to diffuse light softly through the bright white space. 

Pawson said he was equally surprised when he realised his Instagram images were often of vibrantly hued subjects, so he suggested to publisher Phaidon that he produce a...