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01/14/2026 - 07/31/2026
Textuel
2 rue Rampal
75019 Paris
Considered one of the leading photographers of his generation, Martin Parr nevertheless spoke relatively little about his work. Here, in an interview with Quentin Bajac, he opens up and reveals the key elements of his distinctive approach: a social gaze, both ironic and empathetic, on the middle and working classes, leisure activities, mass consumer practices, and consumer goods. The interview covers his youth and education at Manchester Polytechnic, the controversies surrounding his work on 1980s English society, his unique position at the intersection of photojournalism (within Magnum Photos), journalism, and the art world, his attitude toward the evolution of the contemporary world, and also his many other facets that have become predominant today: historian, book publisher, exhibition curator, and collector. While globalization, a theme dear to the artist, is at the origin of a certain disenchantment with the world, his images, deeply attached to humanity, accompany us and allow us to inhabit it and look at it differently.
Textuel
2 rue Rampal
75019 Paris
Considered one of the leading photographers of his generation, Martin Parr nevertheless spoke relatively little about his work. Here, in an interview with Quentin Bajac, he opens up and reveals the key elements of his distinctive approach: a social gaze, both ironic and empathetic, on the middle and working classes, leisure activities, mass consumer practices, and consumer goods. The interview covers his youth and education at Manchester Polytechnic, the controversies surrounding his work on 1980s English society, his unique position at the intersection of photojournalism (within Magnum Photos), journalism, and the art world, his attitude toward the evolution of the contemporary world, and also his many other facets that have become predominant today: historian, book publisher, exhibition curator, and collector. While globalization, a theme dear to the artist, is at the origin of a certain disenchantment with the world, his images, deeply attached to humanity, accompany us and allow us to inhabit it and look at it differently.