FPC431 - Talking to a Living Legend: Interviewing Martin Parr (ENG)

Martin Parr is one of the best-known documentary photographers of his generation.
With over 100 books of his own published, and another 30 edited by Parr, his
photographic legacy is already established.

Parr also acts as a curator and editor. He has curated two photography festivals,
Arles in 2004 and Brighton Biennial in 2010. More recently Parr curated the Barbican
exhibition, Strange and Familiar.

Parr has been a member of the Magnum agency since 1994 and was President from
2013 – 2017. In 2013 Parr was appointed the visiting professor of photography at the
University of Ulster.
Parr’s work has been collected by many of the leading museums, from the Tate, the

Pompidou and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Martin Parr established the Martin Parr Foundation in 2017.

In 2019 the National Portrait Gallery in London held a major exhibition of Parr’s work
titled Only Human.