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
Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
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 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 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
Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are two parts to the process: taking the picture and finding ways of using it. — 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
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
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
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
Photographs are interpretations of reality; as such, it is entirely subjective. Most photos are taken with an agenda, to sell something or… — 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
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
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
You have to take a lot of bad pictures. Dont' be afraid to take bad pictures... You have to take a lot… — 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
