117 Quotes by Martin Parr

Personally, I don't take holidays; I go on trips. My idea of relaxing is taking a trip that isn't commissioned. I'll work just as hard, but without that nagging pressure of fulfilling a commission. Now that's what I call a holiday.

If you go to the supermarket and buy a package of food and look at the photo on the front, the food never looks like that inside, does it? That is a fundamental lie we are sold every day.

I pride myself in being an aficionado of the British seaside. Throughout my career, I have visited and worked in many of the famous British resorts, from Great Yarmouth to Largs.

In New York, you have the street; in the U.K., we have the beach. I end up being like a migrating bird, being attracted to it.

If there is any jarring at all in my photographs, it's because we are so used to ingesting pictures of everywhere looking beautiful.

By default, I am a travel photographer. I work on a combination of commissions and personal projects that take me around the world.

I do read many of the photography magazines from the U.K. and abroad.

I don't like being flattered. It doesn't suit my English sensibilities. Remember, we are the great country of understatement.

From the moment the tourist enters the site, everyone has to be photographed in front of every feature of note.... The photographic record of the visit has almost destroyed the very notion of actually looking.