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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
Actor
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Epsom
Surrey
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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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Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That's the great thing about photography.
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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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I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch and I do love big screen documentaries.
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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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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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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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Tourism is the biggest industry in the world.
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Taking photos is a form of collecting.
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You can't learn passion, either you've got it or you haven't.
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As artists get wealthier and more famous, often their work gets worse... I'm fascinated by the decline of artists. I suspect I'll be in decline myself. It's a fact of life.
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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 am kept awake by the list of possibilities for shooting more photos and deciding what I must prioritise next.
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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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I avoid Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, and if I need to communicate with someone, I email direct.
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I am away so much, so I rarely see live TV, but I use iPlayer to catch programmes.
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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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I do read many of the photography magazines from the UK and abroad.
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