Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work. — 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
Sometimes you feel uncomfortable taking a photograph, but that's all part of the job. — 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
I am kept awake by the list of possibilities for shooting more photos and deciding what I must prioritise next. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
The knack is to find your own inspiration and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
From the moment the tourist enters the site, everyone has to be photographed in front of every feature of note… The photographic… — 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
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
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
