Editing Martin Parr (section)

==Life and career==
[[Image:Martin Parr (Bristol Photobook Festival, 2014).jpg|thumb|right|Parr in 2014]]

===Personal life===
Born in [[Epsom]], Surrey,<ref name="ciar-byrne-telegraph">{{cite news | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/martin-parr-how-to-put-photography-in-the-frame-768667.html | date = 7 January 2008 | access-date = 31 March 2014 | first = Ciar | last = Byrne | newspaper = [[The Daily Telegraph]] | title = Martin Parr: How to put photography in the frame | quote = Channel 4 series, Picture This ... Martin Parr ... is one of the three judges on the show ... BBC4's The Genius of Photography, which also featured Parr ... Parr, who was born in Epsom, Surrey, in 1952, was introduced to the camera by his grandfather, a keen amateur photographer who lived on the outskirts of Bradford, West Yorkshire. He went on to study photography at school ... In the early part of his career, teaching provided the bulk of his income ... In 2004, he was appointed Professor of Photography at the University of Wales, Newport ... Magnum paved the way for Parr to do more commercial work, including fashion shoots for the likes of Paul Smith and Louis Vuitton, and magazine features ... his pictures already use "the language of advertising", making them more accessible ... In 2004, Parr was the guest artistic director for Rencontre D'Arles}}</ref> Parr wanted to become a documentary photographer from the age of fourteen. He cites his grandfather, George Parr, an amateur photographer<ref name="ciar-byrne-telegraph" /> and fellow of the [[Royal Photographic Society]], as an early influence.<ref name="MPI" /><ref name="parr-by-parr" />{{rp|13,14}} He married Susan Mitchell and they have one child, Ellen Parr (born 1986). Parr was diagnosed with cancer in May 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/oct/05/martin-parr-match-point-photographer-tennis-grand-slam-street-photography|title='I didn't really watch any tennis': How Martin Parr captured the Grand Slam's real champions|website=[[TheGuardian.com]]|date=5 October 2021}}</ref>

===Photographer===
Parr has said of his photography:
<blockquote>The fundamental thing I'm exploring constantly is the difference between the mythology of the place and the reality of it.<ref name="parr-by-parr" />{{rp|57}} ... Remember I make serious photographs disguised as entertainment. That's part of my mantra. I make the pictures acceptable to find the audience but deep down there is actually a lot going on that's not sharply written in your face. If you want to read it you can read it.<ref name="parr-by-parr" />{{rp|69,70}}</blockquote>

Parr's aesthetic is close-up, through use of a [[macro lens]], and employing saturated<ref>{{cite magazine | url = http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/05/america-in-color-a-martin-parr-retrospective.html#slide_ss_0=1 | date = 15 May 2013 | access-date = 3 April 2014 | first = Erica | last = Dye | magazine = [[The New Yorker]] | title = America in Color | quote = retrospective of Martin Parr's photographs of life in the U.S., taken over the past twenty years ... Parr's saturated photographs}}</ref> colour, a result of either the type of film and/or use of a [[ring flash]]. This allows him to put his subjects "under the microscope" in their own environment, giving them space to expose their lives and values in ways that often involve inadvertent humour.<ref name="MPI" /> His technique, as seen in his book ''Signs of the Times: A Portrait of the Nation's Tastes'' (1992), has been said to leave viewers with ambiguous emotional reactions, unsure whether to laugh or cry.<ref name="val-williams-martin-parr">{{cite book |last= Williams|first= Val|title= Martin Parr|year=2002|publisher= Phaidon|location= London|isbn=0-7148-3990-6}}</ref>

====Manchester Polytechnic, 1970–1973====
Parr studied photography at [[Manchester Polytechnic]] from 1970 to 1972 with contemporaries [[Daniel Meadows]] and [[Brian Griffin (photographer)|Brian Griffin]].<ref name="val-williams-daniel-meadows">{{cite book | last= Williams | first= Val | title= Daniel Meadows: Edited Photographs From the 70s and 80s | year= 2011 | publisher= [[Photoworks]]| location= Brighton | isbn= 978-1903796467}}</ref>{{rp|24}} Parr and Meadows collaborated on various projects,<ref name="meadows-living-like-this">{{cite book | last= Meadows | first= Daniel | title= Living Like This | year= 1975| publisher= Arrow | location= London | isbn= 0-09-911400-3 | quote = I was, at this time, working closely with a fellow photography student, Martin Parr, and in March we set about documenting the residents of a street in Salford.}}</ref>{{rp|14}} including working at [[Butlin's]] as roving photographers.<ref name="sean-ohagan-john-hinde">{{cite news|url = https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/nov/08/anna-fox-butlins-resort-photography | date = 8 November 2013 | access-date = 29 March 2014 | first = Sean | last = O'Hagan | author-link = Sean O'Hagan (journalist) | website = [[The Guardian]] | title = The height of camp: kitsch, colour and casualwear at Butlins | quote = Parr worked briefly at Butlins in Filey, Yorkshire, as a "walkie" – roving photographer – and was later instrumental in the revival of Hinde's work in the 1980s.}}</ref> They were part of a new wave of documentary photographers, "a loose British grouping, which, though it never gave itself a title have become variously known as 'the Young British Photographers', 'Independent Photographers' and the 'New British Photography'."<ref name="parr-by-parr" />{{rp|49,50}}<ref name="val-williams-daniel-meadows" />{{rp|17}}

====Rural communities, West Yorkshire, Greater Manchester and Ireland, 1975–1982====
In 1975 Parr moved to [[Hebden Bridge]] in West Yorkshire<ref name="parr-by-parr">{{cite book |last1= Parr | first1= Martin | last2= Bajac | first2= Quentin | title= Parr by Parr | year= 2010 | publisher= Schilt | location= Amsterdam | isbn= 978-9-053307-37-3 | quote = QB: It is in Hebden Bridge, where you settled for several years ... MP: I moved there in 1975 and left in 1980.}}</ref>{{rp|23}}<ref name="reznik-time-lightbox">{{cite magazine|url = http://lightbox.time.com/2013/10/21/the-non-conformists-martin-parrs-early-work-in-black-and-white/#1 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131021102607/http://lightbox.time.com/2013/10/21/the-non-conformists-martin-parrs-early-work-in-black-and-white/#1 |url-status = dead |archive-date = 21 October 2013 | date = 21 October 2013 | access-date = 20 April 2014 | last = Reznik | first = Eugene | magazine = [[Time (magazine)|Time]] | title = The Non-Conformists: Martin Parr's Early Work in Black-and-White}}</ref> where he would complete his first mature work.<ref name="telegraph-ordinary-lives">{{cite news | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3615454/Ordinary-lives-extraordinary-photographs.html | date = 17 April 2004 | access-date = 10 April 2014 | newspaper = [[The Daily Telegraph]] | title = Ordinary lives, extraordinary photographs}}</ref> He was involved with the Albert Street Workshop, a hub for artistic activity which included a darkroom and exhibition space. Parr spent five years photographing rural life in the area, focusing on the [[Methodism|Methodist]] (and some [[Baptist]]) [[Nonconformist (Protestantism)|non-conformist]] chapels, a focal point for isolated farming communities that in the early 1970s were closing down. He photographed in black-and-white, for its nostalgic nature and for it being appropriate to his celebratory look at this past activity.<ref name="reznik-time-lightbox" /> Also, photographers at that time were obliged to work in black-and-white to be taken seriously, colour being associated with commercial and snapshot photography.<ref name="reznik-time-lightbox" /> His series ''The Non-Conformists'' was widely exhibited at the time and published as a book in 2013.<ref name="rachel-pickering">{{cite news|url = https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/the-northerner/2013/sep/30/martin-parr-hebden-bridge-only-in-england | date = 30 September 2013 | access-date = 28 March 2014 | first = Rachel | last = Pickering | website = [[The Guardian]] | title = Martin Parr captured a simpler Hebden Bridge. And he lived in my house}}</ref><ref name="sean-ohagan-science-museum">{{cite news|url = https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/sep/20/tony-ray-jones-martin-parr-exhibition | date = 20 September 2013 | access-date = 28 March 2014 | first = Sean | last = O'Hagan | author-link = Sean O'Hagan (journalist) | website = [[The Guardian]] | title = Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr: English rituals of the 60s}}</ref> Critic [[Sean O'Hagan (journalist)|Sean O'Hagan]], writing in ''The Guardian'', said "It's easy to forget how quietly observational Parr was as a black-and-white photographer."<ref name="sean-ohagan-science-museum" />

In 1980 Parr married Susan Mitchell and, for her work, they moved to the west coast of Ireland. He set up a darkroom in Boyle, County Roscommon.

Parr's first publications, ''Bad Weather'', published in 1982 by Zwemmer with an [[Arts Council of Great Britain|Arts Council]] subsidy, ''Calderdale Photographs'' (1984) and ''A Fair Day: Photographs from the West Coast of Ireland'' (1984), all featured photographs from mostly northern England, and Ireland, in black-and-white. He used a [[Leica M3]] with a 35&nbsp;mm lens;<ref name="reznik-time-lightbox" /><ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.martinparr.com/faqs/what-cameras-do-you-use/ | access-date = 20 April 2014 | last = Parr | first = Martin | title = What cameras do you use? | quote = For the early black and white work it was a Leica M3 with a 35mm lens.}}</ref> although for ''Bad Weather'' he quickly switched to an underwater camera with a [[Flash (photography)|flashgun]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Martin Parr (in conversation with Heather Forbes and Peter Turner)|editor-first=Martin |editor-last=Parr |title=Bad Weather |location=London |publisher=Zwemmer |date=1982 |chapter=Thoughts on Bad Weather |isbn=0-302-99996-5 |quote = At first I used my Leica which kept getting full of water, then a friend suggested I use an underwater camera. Buying that, and an underwater flashgun, set the tone for the whole project. 'Where will you going,' said the salesman, 'off to the Med?' 'No, no,' I told him, 'I can't swim.'}}</ref>

====The working class, ''The Last Resort'', 1982–1985====
In 1982 Parr and his wife moved to [[Wallasey]], England, and he switched permanently to colour photography, inspired by the work of US colour photographers, mostly [[Joel Meyerowitz]], but also [[William Eggleston]] and [[Stephen Shore]], and also the British [[Peter Fraser (photographer)|Peter Fraser]] and [[Peter Mitchell (photographer)|Peter Mitchell]].<ref name="parr-by-parr" />{{rp|31}} Parr has written that "I had also encountered the post cards of [[John Hinde (photographer)|John Hinde]] when I worked at Butlin's in the early 70s and the bright saturated colour of these had a big impact on me."<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.martinparr.com/faqs/when-and-why-did-you-change-from-black-and-white-to-colour/ | access-date = 28 March 2014 | last = Parr | first = Martin | title = When and why did you change from black and white to colour?}}</ref> During the summers of 1983, 1984 and 1985<ref name="parr-by-parr" />{{rp|35–36}} he photographed working-class people at the seaside in nearby [[New Brighton, Merseyside|New Brighton]]. This work was published in the book ''The Last Resort: Photographs of New Brighton'' (1986) and exhibited in Liverpool and London.

Although [[John Bulmer]] had pioneered colour documentary photography of Britain, from 1965,<ref name="hamilton">{{cite journal | last1 = Hamilton | first1 = Peter | year = 2013 | title = Northern Exposures | periodical = British Journal of Photography | volume = 160 | issue = 7808 | page = 64 | publisher = Incisive Financial Publishing Limited | quote = many of the images are in colour – a medium in which Bulmer was the British pioneer, and way ahead of photographers now considered scions of the metier, such as William Eggleston, who only started to dabble with it a decade later, and Martin Parr, post-1970.}}</ref> [[Gerry Badger]] has said of ''The Last Resort'':<ref>{{cite book |last= Parr|first= Martin|title=The Last Resort|year=2009|publisher= Dewi Lewis Publishing|location=Stockport|isbn=978-1-904587-79-8|page=5}}</ref>
<blockquote>It is difficult from a perspective of almost a quarter of a century to underestimate [sic] the significance of ''The Last Resort'', either in British photography or Martin Parr's career. For both, it represented a seismic change in the basic mode of photographic expression, from monochrome to colour, a fundamental technical change that heralded the development of a new tone in documentary photography.</blockquote>

Karen Wright, writing in ''The Independent'', has said "He was attacked by some critics for his scrutiny of the working classes, but looking at these works, one merely sees Parr's unflinching eye capturing the truth of a social class embracing leisure in whatever form available."<ref>"[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/in-the-studio-martin-parr-photographer-7897034.html In The Studio: Martin Parr, photographer]", The Independent.</ref>

====The middle class, ''The Cost of Living'' (1987–1989)====
In 1985 Parr completed a commission for the [[Documentary Photography Archive]] in Manchester to photograph people at supermarkets in Salford, ''Retailing in the Borough of Salford'', which is now held at the archive.<ref name="guardian-stauntun">{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2009/apr/05/photography-archives-britain | date = 5 April 2009 | access-date = 24 May 2015 | first = Eithne | last = Staunton | newspaper = [[The Guardian]] | location = London | title = Snap happy – photography archives}}</ref>

He and his wife moved to Bristol in 1987,<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.bristol.gov.uk/press/leisure-and-culture/last-chance-see-martin-parr-exhibition-m-shed | date = 15 November 2011 | access-date = 5 January 2014 | publisher = [[Bristol City Council]] | title = Last chance to see: Martin Parr Exhibition at M Shed | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140106041359/http://www.bristol.gov.uk/press/leisure-and-culture/last-chance-see-martin-parr-exhibition-m-shed | archive-date = 6 January 2014 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> where they still live. During 1987 and 1988 he completed his next major project, on the middle class, who were at that time becoming increasingly affluent under [[Thatcherism]]. He photographed middle-class activities such as shopping, dinner parties and school open days,<ref name="va-new-brighton">{{cite web|url = http://www.vam.ac.uk/users/node/2584 | access-date = 10 April 2014 | publisher = [[Victoria and Albert Museum]] | title = Martin Parr, 'New Brighton' | quote = This photograph can be found in Print Room Box 14a.}}</ref> predominantly around Bristol and Bath<ref name="parr-by-parr" />{{rp|42}} in the southwest of England. It was published as his next book ''The Cost of Living'' (1989) and exhibited in Bath, London, Oxford and Paris.

His book ''One Day Trip'' (1989) featured photographs taken when he accompanied people on a [[booze cruise]] to France, a commission from Mission Photographique Transmanche.

====Mass tourism, ''Small World'' (1987–1994)====

Between 1987 and 1994 Parr travelled internationally to make his next major series, a critique of mass tourism,<ref>"[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/portfolio-martin-parr-2288875.html Portfolio: Martin Parr]", The Independent.</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2007/sep/09/escape.photography | date = 9 September 2007 | access-date = 10 April 2014 | first = Joanne | last = O'Connor | newspaper = [[The Guardian]] | title = Is this what you really look like on holiday?}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine | url = http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2010/04/martin-parr-small-world.html#slide_ss_0=1 | date = 8 April 2010 | access-date = 10 April 2014 | first = Rollo | last = Romig | magazine = [[The New Yorker]] | title = Off the Shelf: Martin Parr's "Small World"}}</ref><ref group="n">The book ''Small World'' is reproduced at the [http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&ALID=29YL53G7RT3 Magnum Photos website].</ref> published as ''Small World'' in 1995. A revised edition with additional photographs was published in 2007. It was exhibited in 1995–1996 in London, Paris, Edinburgh, and Palma in Spain and has continued to be shown in various locations since.

He was visiting professor of photography at the [[Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture|University of Art and Design in Helsinki]] between 1990 and 1992.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/03/15/think-of-finland/ | date = 15 March 2012 | access-date = 9 April 2014 | last = Bartlett | first = Karen | publisher = Nokia | title = Think of Finland | quote = Parr tried to photograph the essence of a country that's captivated him since the early 1990s when he was a professor at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140413131842/http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/03/15/think-of-finland/ | archive-date = 13 April 2014 | url-status = dead | df = dmy-all }}</ref>

====Global consumerism, ''Common Sense'' (1995–1999)====

Between 1995 and 1999 Parr made the series ''Common Sense'' about global consumerism. ''Common Sense'' was an exhibition of 350 prints, and a book published in 1999 with 158 images. The exhibition was first shown in 1999 and was staged simultaneously in forty-one venues in seventeen countries.<ref name="tate-common-sense">{{cite web|url = https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/parr-common-sense-p78371/text-summary | date = February 2004 | access-date = 10 April 2014 | work = [[Tate Etc.]] | title = Martin Parr Common Sense 1995-9}}</ref> The pictures depict the minutiae of consumer culture, and are intended to show the ways in which people entertain themselves. The photographs were taken with 35&nbsp;mm ultra-saturated film for its vivid, heightened colours.<ref name="tate-common-sense" />
<!-- [[Sean O'Hagan (journalist)|Sean O'Hagan]], writing in ''The Guardian'', named ''Up and Down Peachtree'' in his list of best photography books of 2012.<ref>{{cite news |url = https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/dec/02/best-photography-books-of-2012 | date = 2 December 2012 | access-date = 6 January 2014 | first= Sean |last= O'Hagan | newspaper = [[The Guardian]] | title = Best photography books of 2012 | quote = Another Magnum photographer, the prodigious Martin Parr, turned his acid eye on America for the first time with Up and Down Peachtree (Contrasto £25), a series of colour snapshots from Atlanta, Georgia of the garish and the intimate.}}</ref> -->

===Magnum Photos===
Parr joined [[Magnum Photos]] as an associate member in 1988. The vote on his inclusion as a full member in 1994 was divisive, with [[Philip Jones Griffiths]] circulating a plea to other members not to admit him.<ref>Russell Miller, ''Magnum: Fifty Years at the Front Line of History'' (London: Pimlico, 1997; {{ISBN|9781409002642}}). [https://books.google.com/books?id=t94uyAuMuxgC Here] at Google Books. Retrieved 10 April 2014.</ref> Parr achieved the necessary two-thirds majority by one vote. Magnum membership helped him work on editorial photography,<ref name="ciar-byrne-telegraph" /> and on editorial fashion photography for [[Paul Smith (fashion designer)|Paul Smith]], [[Louis Vuitton]], [[Agnès b.#Gallery and periodical|Galerie du jour Agnès B.]] and [[Madame Figaro]].<ref name="ciar-byrne-telegraph" /><ref name="parr-by-parr" />{{rp|60–61}}<ref>"[http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/08/on-the-beach-with-martin-parr.html#slide_ss_0=1 On the Beach with Martin Parr]", The New Yorker.</ref>

In 2014 Parr was voted in as president of Magnum Photos International,<ref name="bjp-magnum">{{cite web | first = Simon | last = Bainbridge | url = http://www.bjp-online.com/2016/06/magnum-photos-announces-two-new-nominee-members-following-its-69th-agm/ | date = 27 June 2016 | access-date = 27 June 2016 | work = [[British Journal of Photography]]| publisher = Apptitude Media Ltd  | title = Magnum Photos announces two new nominee members following its 69th AGM}}</ref> a post he held for 3.5 years until 2017.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=20 July 2018|title=Annual General Meeting (AGM) – Magnum Photos|url=https://www.magnumphotos.com/theme/agm/|website=Magnum Photos}}</ref>

===Collector===

====Photobooks====
Parr is a collector and critic of photobooks.<ref name="liz-jobey-ft">{{cite news |url = http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/83acb960-a981-11e3-9b71-00144feab7de.html | date = 14 March 2014 | access-date = 15 March 2014 | first= Liz | last= Jobey | newspaper = [[Financial Times]] | title = Collecting with the FT: Martin Parr | quote = We are here to talk about his books but Parr collects pretty much everything, from Chinese Mao-era tea caddies to miniature televisions, commemorative plates to cigarette cases decorated with Soviet space-dogs ... his most enduring legacy is likely to be the 12,000 photography books he has collected over the past 35 years. What began as a hobby has developed into a mission to change the way the history of photography is defined and understood. As a collector, he has discovered, documented and promoted previously unknown areas of photographic bookmaking.}}</ref><ref name="bbc-imagine">[[Imagine (TV series)]], Season 2, Episode 4, The World According to Parr, 3 December 2003</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.pdnonline.com/features/Why-Gerhard-Steidl-I-8777.shtml | date = 13 August 2013 | access-date = 30 July 2014 | last = Walker | first = David | publisher = [[Photo District News]] | title = Why Gerhard Steidl Is a Book Publishing Master | quote = photographer Martin Parr, who is also an authority on photography books.}}</ref> His collaboration with the critic [[Gerry Badger]], ''The Photobook: A History'' (in three volumes) covers more than 1,000 examples of photobooks from the 19th century through to the present day. The first two volumes took eight years to complete.<ref name="MPI" /> Tate Modern's retrospective exhibition of [[Daidō Moriyama]] in London included many Moriyama books loaned from Parr displayed in vitrines.

====Other items====
Parr also collects postcards, photographs and various other items of vernacular and popular culture<ref name="liz-jobey-ft" /> such as wallpaper, Saddam Hussein watches and prostitute advertising cards from phoneboxes (items with a photograph on them).<ref name="bbc-imagine" /><ref name="nancy-banks-smith">{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/dec/04/broadcasting.tvandradio | date = 4 December 2003 | access-date = 2 April 2014 | first = Nancy | last = Banks-Smith | newspaper = [[The Guardian]] | title = No more Mr nice guy | quote = Imagine... The World According to Parr (BBC1) ... He is a passionate collector of things that are going, going, gone. Everything must have a photograph on it. "I have been collecting wallpaper for 30 years. Concorde wallpaper, ET wallpaper, the Beatles. Once you start it's hard to give up. Ah!" he pounced on a cardboard box, "The Spice Girls ephemera!" He spread his collection of tin trays on the floor and his watches with Saddam Hussein on the face. When he is in London he adds to his collection of prostitutes' cards from phone boxes.}}</ref> Here too, items from his collections have been used as the basis for publications and exhibitions. Since the 1970s, Parr has collected and publicised the garish postcards made between the 1950s and 1970s by John Hinde and his team of photographers.<ref name="sean-ohagan-john-hinde" />

===Curator===
Parr was guest artistic director for the 2004 [[Rencontres d'Arles]] festival of photography,<ref name="sean-ohagan-brighton">{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/sep/27/martin-parr-brighton-photo-biennial | date = 1 October 2010 | access-date = 3 April 2014 | first = Sean | last = O'Hagan | author-link =  Sean O'Hagan (journalist) | newspaper = [[The Guardian]] | title = Can Martin Parr work his magic on the Brighton Photo Biennial?}}</ref> guest curator of the ''New Typologies'' exhibition at the 2008 [[New York Photo Festival]],<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/arts/design/16gall.html | date = 16 May 2008 | access-date = 3 April 2014 | first = Ken | last = Johnson | newspaper = [[The New York Times]] | title = New York Photo Festival}}</ref> and guest curator of [[Brighton Photo Biennial]] in 2010, which he called ''New Documents''.<ref name="sean-ohagan-brighton" /><ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/8014072/Brighton-Photo-Biennial.html | date = 22 September 2010 | access-date = 3 April 2014 | first = Lucy | last = Davies | newspaper = [[The Daily Telegraph]] | title = Brighton Photo Biennial}}</ref> Critic Sean O'Hagan, writing in ''The Guardian'', said "Back in 2004, he was invited by the organisers of the annual Rencontres D'Arles to be guest curator. That year's Arles festival, in its range and ambition, remains the standard by which all subsequent Rencontres have been judged."<ref name="sean-ohagan-brighton" />

Parr was artistic director of the newly established [[Bristol Photo Festival]], scheduled to open in 2021. However in July 2020 he quit, due to his involvement with a 2018 reissue of the photobook ''London'' by Gian Butturini, after a campaign by an [[anthropology]] student at [[University College London]], who called a pairing of photographs in it racist.<ref>{{cite news|first1=Steven|last1=Morris|access-date=2020-07-22|title=Martin Parr quits as director of Bristol Photo Festival over racism row|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jul/21/martin-parr-quits-as-director-of-bristol-photo-festival-over-racism-row|newspaper=The Guardian|date=21 July 2020|issn=0261-3077|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|access-date=2020-07-24|title='Right decision' for festival director to quit|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-53498584|newspaper=BBC News|date=24 July 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|access-date=2020-07-22|title=Martin Parr steps down as artistic director of Bristol Photo Festival after student's anti-racism campaign|url=http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/martin-parr-stood-down-from-bristol-photo-festival-after-student-anti-racism-campaign|website=[[The Art Newspaper]]|date=21 July 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|access-date=2020-07-24|title=Renowned Photographer Martin Parr Has Resigned as Artistic Director of the Bristol Photo Festival After Being Accused of Racial Insensitivity|url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/martin-parr-resigns-bristol-photo-racism-allegations-1896448|date=22 July 2020|website=artnet News}}</ref>

===Film and television===
Parr has been involved in making television, and documentary and other films.

From 1990 to 1992 Parr collaborated with Nick Barker, taking photographs to accompany Barker's film ''Signs of the Times''.

In 1997, Parr began producing his own television documentaries with [[Mosaic Film]].

In 2003 Parr was the subject of and appeared extensively in the ''[[Imagine (TV series)|Imagine]]'' BBC One TV series episode ''The World According to Parr'', directed and produced by [[Rebecca Frayn]], and hosted and executive produced by [[Alan Yentob]].<ref name="nancy-banks-smith" />

He was cameraman on the film ''[[It's Nice Up North]]'' (2006) with comedian [[Graham Fellows]] (as his character John Shuttleworth). The film is a comic documentary filmed over several years in [[Shetland Islands|Shetland]].<ref name="theguardian-logan">{{cite web|access-date=2022-07-22|title='The further north you go, the nicer it gets'|url=http://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/apr/20/1|date=20 April 2006|website=The Guardian}}</ref>

In 2007 Parr took part in BBC Four's ''[[The Genius of Photography]]'', a six-part documentary series exploring the history of photography.<ref name="ciar-byrne-telegraph" /> In 2008 he was one of three judges on the Channel 4 series ''[[Picture This (Channel 4)|Picture This]]''.<ref name="ciar-byrne-telegraph" />

In 2014 Parr created "Turkey and Tinsel", a 60-minute deadpan and often hilarious observational video documentary about faux Christmas in small town England.

===Teaching===
Parr was a visiting lecturer at West Surrey College of Art & Design (now [[University for the Creative Arts]]) in [[Farnham]], Surrey.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.lumas.com/artist/martin_parr/ |title=Martin Parr - Pictures, Photography, Photo Art Online at LUMAS |access-date=20 March 2017 |archive-date=21 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170321165646/http://www.lumas.com/artist/martin_parr/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2004 he was appointed professor of photography at the [[University of Wales, Newport]].<ref name="ciar-byrne-telegraph" /> In 2013 he was appointed professor of photography at [[Ulster University]] in [[Belfast]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://photography.belfastschoolofart.com/news/martin-parr-belfast | first = Paul | last = Seawright | author-link = Paul Seawright | date = 24 May 2013 | access-date = 24 August 2016 | publisher = [[Ulster University]] | title = Professor Martin Parr in Belfast}}</ref>