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You have to take a lot of bad pictures. Dont' be afraid to take bad pictures... You have to take a lot of bad pictures in order to know when you've got a good one.
Martin Parr
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Martin Parr
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: May 23
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Tourism is the biggest industry in the world.
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Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.
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I avoid Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, and if I need to communicate with someone, I email direct.
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If you photograph for a long time, you get to understand such things as body language. I often do not look at people I photograph, especially afterwards. Also when I want a photo, I become somewhat fearless, and this helps a lot. There will always be someone who objects to being photographed, and when this happens you move on.
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I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch and I do love big screen documentaries.
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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 are increasingly controlled by large institutions, large companies and large systems.
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My black-and-white work is more of a celebration and the color work became more of a critique of society.
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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 option of controlling every technical aspect. It's the most accessible, democratic medium available in the world.
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There are two parts to the process: taking the picture and finding ways of using it.
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Criticism is hypocrisy society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.
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Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of propaganda.
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I get up early and open my emails, write cheques and answer the phone whatever needs to be done.
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The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.
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I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.
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We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach to show aspects of reality.
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I do read many of the photography magazines from the UK and abroad.
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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 a great distortion of contemporary life. Photographers were interested only in certain things. A visually interesting place, people who were either very rich or very poor, and nostalgia.
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