Martin Parr is a British documentary photographer. He has had around 40 solo photobooks published, and has featured in around 80 exhibitions worldwide.

“He is known for his photographic projects that take an intimate, satirical and anthropological look at aspects of modern life, in particular documenting the social classes of England, and more broadly the wealth of the Western world.”

His work caught my eye as some of the photos he has taken are a similar kind of style to what I would like to do with my project. Although this is not the focus of his photography, some of his photos show places where people have gathered for some reason, which interests me a lot.

Some of the photos show places where the people are all there for their own separate needs. For example, the Diamond Hill Cemetery, as shown above, and the Ferry below. These people are here by themselves, but they are all their for similar reasons.

Then there are places where something has been organised, so people are purposely all gathered in that place for the same thing.

This is the kind of thing I would like to explore within my work, places people accidentally gather, and places people purposely gather for specific purposes and events.

“Martin goes to Benidorm and explores further what is possible with the telephoto lens.”

“Over the summers of 2013 and 2014, Martin explored life on the Amalfi Coast, Italy.”