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“I love curating, because I'm lucky and privileged that I have a platform and I can share my discoveries with other people.”

Martin Parr

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Taking photos is a form of collecting.

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

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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…

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When I am in London, all I do is mix with other people in the arts.

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

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Tourism is the biggest industry in the world.

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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…

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Nobody thinks about technical issues anymore because cameras or camera phones take care of that automatically. On the other hand, you still have the…

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As we travel around Britain, I am convinced most of us cannot really appreciate what we are seeing. We take too much for granted,…

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I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.

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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…

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We live in a difficult but inspiring world, and there is so much out there that I want to record.

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