British - Photographer | May 23, 1952 -
The idea of England in decline is very attractive.
Martin Parr
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I just go out and try to make sense of the world around me.
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I photograph wealth.
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Places change all the time, and the type of people who live there change.
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In New York, you have the street; in the U.K., we have the beach. I end up being like a migrating bird, being attracted to it.
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Dictators are interesting, no?
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When I visited Vietnam for Oxfam, the thing that really struck me was how the local farmers had to prepare to evacuate or climb to their mezzanines with their valuable family possessions.
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Margaret Thatcher was very good for the arts in so far as it gave people a real focus for something to be against.
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The ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain's saving grace.
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TV-makers usually don't know much about photography.
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One of the things I regret is that magazines now are so lifestyle-orientated that the opportunity to do bigger projects is gone. This is a serious misjudgment on the part of magazine editors.
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There are 65 to 70 photography galleries in New York alone. In the U.K., there are no more than five, and they're all in London.
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