Martin Parr Quotes
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Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.
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Photography is Art and Art is Photography.
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Photographs are interpretations of reality; as such, it is entirely subjective. Most photos are taken with an agenda, to sell something or to make a subject look better than it really is. Think of family snapshots - everyone is smiling and happy.
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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.
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I am not as cross about Thatcher now as I was in the 80s. Begrudgingly, I can see that some of her policies helped modernise Britain.
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I do read many of the photography magazines from the UK and abroad.
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Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.
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Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That's the great thing about photography.
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There are two parts to the process: taking the picture and finding ways of using it.
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With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.
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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.
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From the moment the tourist enters the site, everyone has to be photographed in front of every feature of note.... The photographic record of the visit has almost destroyed the very notion of actually looking.
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To ask people's permission to take their pictures? Sometimes it feels right to ask, but I will not ask, unless it is essential to do so. If you asked all the time, you would miss everything. With the exception of portraits, it is generally bad news if people are looking at the camera.
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Dictators are interesting, no?
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You can't learn passion, either you've got it or you haven't.
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Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.
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The knack is to find your own inspiration, and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.
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We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach to show aspects of reality.
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I am kept awake by the list of possibilities for shooting more photos and deciding what I must prioritise next.
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Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.
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I am away so much, so I rarely see live TV, but I use iPlayer to catch programmes.
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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.
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For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it's a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that are going to make you money.
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The easy bit is picking up a camera and pointing and shooting. But then you have to decide what it is you’re trying to say and express.
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In 1982 I bought the newly released Makina Plaubel 55mm fixed-lens camera. With this shift from 35mm to 6 x 7, I also changed from black and white to color. Later that year, I started my project on New Brighton called The Last Resort. However, the first project I shot in colour was composed of urban scenes from Liverpool. This image was on the second roll of film. It's the first good photo I made in this new chapter of my work.
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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.
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I try to photograph my own and society's hypocrisy.
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Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.
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The danger is, you have a formula and you just repeat it.
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Work harder, get closer and be passionate about what you photograph.
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