Photography Quotes by Martin Parr

All photography is propaganda.

— Martin Parr

I photograph wealth.

— Martin Parr

Taking photos is a form of collecting.

— Martin Parr

I am what I photograph.

— Martin Parr

I try to photograph my own and society's hypocrisy.

— Martin Parr

Photography is Art and Art is Photography.

— Martin Parr

I do read many of the photography magazines from the UK and abroad.

— Martin Parr

I do read many of the photography magazines from the U.K. and abroad.

— Martin Parr

I photograph people as I find them. But people have issues about how they look.

— Martin Parr

I would drown in objects if I didn't have the ability to photograph them.

— Martin Parr

Work harder, get closer and be passionate about what you photograph.

— Martin Parr

Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.

— Martin Parr

The easy bit is picking up a camera and pointing and shooting. But then you have to decide what it is you’re…

— Martin Parr

Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.

— Martin Parr

There are two parts to the process: taking the picture and finding ways of using it.

— Martin Parr

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

If there is any jarring at all in my photographs, it's because we are so used to ingesting pictures of everywhere looking…

— Martin Parr

With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and…

— Martin Parr

Unless it hurts, unless there’s some vulnerability there, I don’t think you’re going to get good photographs.

— Martin Parr

Sometimes you feel uncomfortable taking a photograph, but that's all part of the job.

— Martin Parr

Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that…

— Martin Parr

Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality. In…

— Martin Parr

You have to take a lot of bad pictures. Dont' be afraid to take bad pictures... You have to take a lot…

— Martin Parr

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

Photographs are interpretations of reality; as such, it is entirely subjective. Most photos are taken with an agenda, to sell something or…

— Martin Parr

From the moment the tourist enters the site, everyone has to be photographed in front of every feature of note… The photographic…

— Martin Parr

Photos tend to organize chaos, to define what we're doing here. It is essential that individuals' voices depict the world around us,…

— Martin Parr

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate. Most of the photographs in your paper, unless they are hard news, are…

— Martin Parr

If you photograph for a long time, you get to understand such things as body language. I often do not look at…

— Martin Parr

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

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

In 1982 I bought the newly released Makina Plaubel 55mm fixed-lens camera. With this shift from 35mm to 6 x 7, I…

— Martin Parr

I never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group.

— Martin Parr

TV-makers usually don't know much about photography.

— Martin Parr

There are 65 to 70 photography galleries in New York alone. In the U.K., there are no more than five, and they're…

— Martin Parr

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

— Martin Parr

Photography's central role is to be the absolute medium of the day. It is fantastic that there is no longer any technical…

— Martin Parr

For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it's a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that…

— Martin Parr

I am kept awake by the list of possibilities for shooting more photos and deciding what I must prioritise next.

— Martin Parr

The knack is to find your own inspiration and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.

— Martin Parr