Martin Parr
Martin Parr
Martin Parris a British documentary photographer, photojournalist and photobook collector. He is known for his photographic projects that take an intimate, satirical and anthropological look at aspects of modern life, in particular documenting the social classes of England, and more broadly the wealth of the Western world. His major projects have been rural communities, The Last Resort, The Cost of Living, Small Worldand Common Sense...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth25 May 1952
ability drown objects photograph
I would drown in objects if I didn't have the ability to photograph them.
buy food looks package photo sold
If you go to the supermarket and buy a package of food and look at the photo on the front, the food never looks like that inside, does it? That is a fundamental lie we are sold every day.
photography guilt tests
I accept that all photography is voyeuristic and exploitative, and obviously I live with my own guilt and conscience. It's part of the test and I don't have a problem with it.
interesting people photographer
I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found there was a great distortion of contemporary life. Photographers were interested only in certain things. A visually interesting place, people who were either very rich or very poor, and nostalgia.
photography roles intimidation
Photography's central role is to be the absolute medium of the day. It is fantastic that there is no longer any technical intimidation.
photography magazines
I do read many of the photography magazines from the U.K. and abroad.
war lines photographer
Magnum photographers were meant to go out as a crusade ... to places like famine and war and ... I went out and went round the corner to the local supermarket because this to me is the front line.
hurt thinking photograph
Unless it hurts, unless there’s some vulnerability there, I don’t think you’re going to get good photographs.
photography color snapshots
Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.
hard-work passionate photograph
Work harder, get closer and be passionate about what you photograph.
photography photographer remember
Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That's the great thing about photography.
photography inspiration journey
The knack is to find your own inspiration and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.
photography fashion lying
Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate. Most of the photographs in your paper, unless they are hard news, are lies. Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality... Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.
hypocrisy trying photograph
I try to photograph my own and society's hypocrisy.