Martin Parr

Photographs taken from a book looking at an overall selection of Martin Parr's work.









Above photographs are taken from Martin Parr's 'Think of England' book.

I think that Martin Parr was going to be an obvious inspiration for me in this project. We are both dealing with a similar subject matter in England and its people and in many cases taking photographs in very working class areas of working class people in regular day to day activities. There is also a stylistic similarity in terms of the use of bright colour and where possible I have tried to create photographs with a high level of contrast so that they really jump off the page. However I do think there are some major differences between my project and many of his especially that of humour. I have not tried to take funny photographs that are in effect visual puns, which many of Parr's photographs do. This isn't to say that some of my photos do do this but what I think is important is that I didn't intentionally seek to do this and I didn't want my books to have an overarching feeling of humour. I think that before I started actually taking photographs for this project that I had a very Martin Parr image in my head of what sort of photographs I was going to come out with. This didn't really happen when I started to actually go out and meet people and I guess this has been part of the natural progression of the project.