Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
I have been photographing people dancing for 20 or 30 years now, and I think I will eventually do a book of dancing photos. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
I photograph people as I find them. But people have issues about how they look. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Places change all the time, and the type of people who live there change. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Margaret Thatcher was very good for the arts in so far as it gave people a real focus for something to be… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality. In… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Of course, New Brighton is very shabby, very rundown, but people still go there because it's the place where you take kids… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
I see things going on before my eyes and I photograph them as they are, without trying to change them. I don't… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
If you photograph for a long time, you get to understand such things as body language. I often do not look at… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
I go straight in very close to people and I do that because it's the only way you can get the picture.… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
To ask people's permission to take their pictures? Sometimes it feels right to ask, but I will not ask, unless it is… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate. Most of the photographs in your paper, unless they are hard news, are… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
I love curating, because I'm lucky and privileged that I have a platform and I can share my discoveries with other people. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary. — Martin Parr Copy Share
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… — Martin Parr Copy Share
Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality. In the cookery… — Martin Parr Copy Share
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… — Martin Parr Copy Share
Nobody thinks about technical issues anymore because cameras or camera phones take care of that automatically. On the other hand, you still have the… — Martin Parr Copy Share
As we travel around Britain, I am convinced most of us cannot really appreciate what we are seeing. We take too much for granted,… — Martin Parr Copy Share
I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further. — Martin Parr Copy Share
Photos tend to organize chaos, to define what we're doing here. It is essential that individuals' voices depict the world around us, as we… — Martin Parr Copy Share
We live in a difficult but inspiring world, and there is so much out there that I want to record. — Martin Parr Copy Share
My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down. — Martin Parr Copy Share
Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all. — Martin Parr Copy Share
