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May 14, 2024 · If we don't always recognise the Britain in Parr's photos, it may be due to its impermanence.
May 1, 2019 · Parr himself was delighted to find and photograph a fish-and-chip shop—a bastion of Britishness—run by two young Muslim women, finding it, he has said, “a real indication of how the cultural communities have integrated into British society.”. But he is aware that many do not share his view.
Parr’s relationship with Britain is, self-admittedly, a love-hate one. “I love the traditions,” he tells me, sat on a red plastic chair in a quintessentially British “seaside” cafe that has been installed as part of the exhibition. “But I dislike the bigotry. The motivation that made people want to leave the EU.”.
Oct 21, 2019 · Martin Parr’s hyper-real photos offer a unique window into life in Britain, from seaside holidays in the mid-1980s to more recent scenes from Extinction Rebellion and Brexit protests.
Apr 17, 2019 · April 17, 2019. Martin Parr is something of a cottage industry in Britain. The photographer’s name, likeness and work have adorned M&M’s, leather jackets, soccer scarves and Bombay Sapphire ...
May 30, 2022 · Parr’s work has been collected by many of the major museums, from the Tate, the Pompidou and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He established the Martin Parr Foundation in Bristol, UK, in 2017. A collection called Tell Me You’re British, Without Telling Me You’re British is made up of 4 photos from his seminal work (all of the shots ...
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Dec 17, 2017 · These days, he suggests, there is only really one story in town. “Try as you might in Britain, you simply cannot get away from Brexit now, it infects every other story.”. Parr likens the ...
