You can easily take photographs at a wedding - no one would question it. But funerals are different. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that… — 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
I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
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 Image
Most of us, when we go out with a camera in our own country, try to find exotic subject matter to photograph. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
By default, I am a travel photographer. I work on a combination of commissions and personal projects that take me around the… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That's the great thing about photography. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Sepia in particular tends to make everything look a bit romantic and almost sentimental, hence the fact that it remains such a… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Modern technology has taken the angst out of achieving the perfect shot. For me, the only thing that counts is the idea… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
When I first started learning how to take photographs, you had to spend the first six months figuring out what an f-stop… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
When someone says to you, 'Oh, I don't take a good picture,' what they mean is they haven't come to terms with… — 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
I accept that all photography is voyeuristic and exploitative, and obviously I live with my own guilt and conscience. It's part of… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Magnum photographers were meant to go out as a crusade ... to places like famine and war and ... I went out… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work in black-and-white. Color was… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the… — 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
