Martin Parr

Photographer

1952-05-23

Books by Martin Parr

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In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work in black-and-white. Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.
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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.
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Tourism is the biggest industry in the world.
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The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.
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Personally, I don't take holidays; I go on trips. My idea of relaxing is taking a trip that isn't commissioned. I'll work just as hard, but without that nagging pressure of fulfilling a commission. Now that's what I call a holiday.
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I don't like being flattered. It doesn't suit my English sensibilities. Remember, we are the great country of understatement.
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Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.
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I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.
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I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.
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