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Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.

Over the years, I have perfected the art of dancing and photographing at the same time: it's a great double act. If you're dancing, you are joining in. If you stand there rigid, you are not in the flow of things.

Martin Parr

Filming is always a challenge because I'm not used to it. But I approach it head-on. I'm not technically brilliant, but it's the spirit that counts.

Martin Parr

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

Martin Parr

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

Martin Parr

I get up early and open my emails, write cheques, and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done.

Martin Parr

I love curating, because I'm lucky and privileged that I have a platform and I can share my discoveries with other people.

Martin Parr

Of course, New Brighton is very shabby, very rundown, but people still go there because it's the place where you take kids out on a Sunday.

Martin Parr

The ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain's saving grace.

Martin Parr

Taking photos is a form of collecting.

Martin Parr

I have been photographing people dancing for 20 or 30 years now, and I think I will eventually do a book of dancing photos.

Martin Parr

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.

Martin Parr

I would urge everyone to start looking at the world in a different way. Spend some time looking at everyday objects, at their design, their shape, their individual characteristics. Think ahead and imagine their significance.

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.

Martin Parr

Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.

Martin Parr

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

Martin Parr

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

Martin Parr

When I visited Vietnam for Oxfam, the thing that really struck me was how the local farmers had to prepare to evacuate or climb to their mezzanines with their valuable family possessions.

Martin Parr

We live in a homogenized world, where it's hard to get excited when everything is slick and professional. The interesting things are the dull things.

Martin Parr

When I am in London, all I do is mix with other people in the arts.

Martin Parr

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

Martin Parr

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

Martin Parr

Sometimes you feel uncomfortable taking a photograph, but that's all part of the job.

Martin Parr

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.

Martin Parr

When someone says to you, 'Oh, I don't take a good picture,' what they mean is they haven't come to terms with how they look. They take a fine picture, it's just that their image of how they think they look is not in touch with the reality.

Martin Parr

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.

Martin Parr

You can't shoot in sepia, so converting into black and white and then into brown makes everything feel less real.

Martin Parr

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

Martin Parr

Sepia in particular tends to make everything look a bit romantic and almost sentimental, hence the fact that it remains such a popular choice for wedding photographs.

Martin Parr

I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.

Martin Parr

My biggest television weakness is 'Dragons' Den.'

Martin Parr

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

Martin Parr

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

Martin Parr

I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.

Martin Parr

Margaret Thatcher was very good for the arts in so far as it gave people a real focus for something to be against.

Martin Parr

I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.

Martin Parr

Tourism is the biggest industry in the world.

Martin Parr