117 Quotes by Martin Parr

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.

I never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group.

You can easily take photographs at a wedding - no one would question it. But funerals are different.

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.

One of the things I regret is that magazines now are so lifestyle-orientated that the opportunity to do bigger projects is gone. This is a serious misjudgment on the part of magazine editors.

Tourism is the biggest industry in the world.

I photograph people as I find them. But people have issues about how they look.

Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do so. My conscience is clear.

There are elements of irony in my work, of course.