117 Quotes by Martin Parr

Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality. In the cookery pages, the food always looks amazing, right? Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.

The trouble with Hollywood films is that they always have a pleasant ending.

I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.

The idea of England in decline is very attractive.

Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.

My black-and-white work is more of a celebration, and the color work became more of a critique of society.

In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work in black-and-white. Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.

The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.