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 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
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 Copy Share Image
Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work. — 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
Unless it hurts, unless there’s some vulnerability there, I don’t think you’re going to get good photographs. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
You can easily take photographs at a wedding - no one would question it. But funerals are different. — 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
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
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 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
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 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
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
There are two parts to the process: taking the picture and finding ways of using it. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 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 the palette… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
We live in a difficult but inspiring world, and there is so much out there that I want to record. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
