Martin Parr

Martin Parr is a British documentary photographer and photojournalist. He is famous for his photographic projects that focus on photographing the social classes of Britain. Parr’s photography has an intimate, critical and anthropological nature on modern life. Parr has been a member of the Magnum photos group since 1994.

I think Parr’s work is a true reflection of the un-photographed perhaps ‘ugly’ side of society. He explores the unpleasingly aesthetics of daily life that we sometimes intentionally forget. The bright colours could possibly be a representation of our enthusiastic attitude to an imperfect world. Parr documents with a passion to uncover the concealed, photographing at unpredicted angles of imaginative concepts with the real people of the modern world. I like his style of photography because the subject does not have to be beautiful, he finds a way of bringing out the beauty in the images. His style creates unusual, critical and vibrant images that tell a story in each one.