You have a responsibility to record things in society that are important. Photojournalists tend to look at things like when a ...

The Magnum photographer, curator, and prolific photobook collector Martin Parr has opened his foundation in Bristol to the public and researchers. Parr is now an archivist too—not just of his own work ...

Update - the I am Martin Parr movie is being shown on BBC Four tonight - September 1, 2025 at 9pm. The 65-minute documentary will also be repeated on BBC 4 on September 2 at 02.05am, and on Friday ...

When Martin Parr was 14, a teacher described him in a school report as "utterly lazy and inattentive." The assessment couldn’t have been more wrong, or, perhaps, more telling. That same year, Parr ...

On Tuesday evening, the Magnum photographer Martin Parr presented his most recent project, “Parrworld,” at the Strand. “Parrworld” is not a photography book per se, but a visual compendium of two ...

Martin Parr is the Jay-Z of documentary photography. Parr's presence can be felt everywhere in the medium. He is, hands down, the hardest working photographer I know. At 60, Martin continues to ...

Martin Parr believes there’s truth behind the whole “you are what you eat” idea. “You can tell a lot about society, who we are and what we like doing, by looking at the food we eat,” he told Bloomberg ...

The High Museum of Art commissioned Martin Parr to document Atlanta as part of its Picturing the South project—a series of artist commissions that engage with the American South. Channeling his ...

The latest edition of Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari’s surrealist picture-led magazine Toiletpaper celebrates the work of the British documentary photographer and former Magnum president ...

As supermarkets sold out of baked goods and bunting—one chain sold 300 miles worth—Britains, from posh St. John’s to working class Hackney, celebrated the wedding of Wills and Kate. With some 6,000 ...

If you know the British photographer Martin Parr at all, it’s likely for “The Last Resort,” his starkly unforgiving series of pictures from the 1980s that captured pasty working-class Britons crammed ...