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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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Epsom
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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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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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Tourism is the biggest industry in the world.
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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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You can't learn passion, either you've got it or you haven't.
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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 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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Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.
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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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I do read many of the photography magazines from the UK and abroad.
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I am what I photograph.
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