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The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.
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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Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.
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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 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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Unless it hurts, unless there’s some vulnerability there, I don’t think you’re going to get good photographs.
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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.
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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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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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I do read many of the photography magazines from the UK and abroad.
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There are two parts to the process: taking the picture and finding ways of using it.
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Dictators are interesting, no?
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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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Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.
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Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That's the great thing about photography.
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I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch and I do love big screen documentaries.
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I accept that all photography is voyeuristic and exploitative, and obviously I live with my own guilt and conscience. It's part of the test and I don't have a problem with it.
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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.
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Taking photos is a form of collecting.
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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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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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