“I have photographed much closer where bits of people and food become part of the big picture, and one advantage of this is that it means people are less recognisable.”
Martin Parr is a contemporary British photographer. Best known as a chronicler of modern life in the English countryside, his amusing and unconventional observation of human behavior reflects of the values of society. Fascinated by boredom, the average, and the banal, Martin Parr published his first book in 1980 entitled Bad Weather, thus choosing "a subject by which the British are obsessively preoccupied". He quickly established himself as one of the masters of vernacular photography, a so-called amateur photography whose subject is everyday life, without artistic intention. Garish colors, subjects bordering on the grotesque, perfectly overloaded compositions: Man is at the center of his photographs. A human neither beautiful nor ugly, goes through a daily life written in cynical poetry. Martin Parr loves to capture the communication and consumer society, as well as the hobbies of the working classes. Crowds at the sea, at the mall, in the mountains. His work is a magnifying mirror of our inconsistencies, our flaws and our neuroses, our passions, and our lifestyles.