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When I first started learning how to take photographs, you had to spend the first six months figuring out what an f-stop was. Now you just go and take pictures.

Martin Parr

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Martin Parr
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: May 23
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You can't learn passion, either you've got it or you haven't.
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Unless it hurts, unless there’s some vulnerability there, I don’t think you’re going to get good photographs.
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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 am not as cross about Thatcher now as I was in the 80s. Begrudgingly, I can see that some of her policies helped modernise Britain.
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Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That's the great thing about photography.
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