117 Quotes by Martin Parr

Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That's the great thing about photography.

The knack is to find your own inspiration and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate. Most of the photographs in your paper, unless they are hard news, are lies. Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality... Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.

I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up.

The danger is, you have a formula and you just repeat it.

Taking photos is a form of collecting.

I try to photograph my own and society's hypocrisy.

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.

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.