Martin Parr Quotes About Photography

• If you photograph for a long time, you get to understand such things as body language. I often do not look at people I photograph, especially afterwards. Also when I want a photo, I become somewhat fearless, and this helps a lot. There will always be someone who objects to being photographed, and when this happens you move on.

  Martin Parr

  Moving On, Photography, Long

• All photography is propaganda.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Propaganda, Photograph

• La fotografía es la cosa más simple del mundo, pero es increíblemente complicado para que realmente funcione.

  Martin Parr

  Inspiring, Photography, World

• There are two parts to the process: taking the picture and finding ways of using it.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Two, Way

• With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Reality, Giving

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

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Inspiration, Journey

  "Top artists reveal how to find creative inspiration", www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2012.

• Photography's central role is to be the absolute medium of the day. It is fantastic that there is no longer any technical intimidation.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Roles, Intimidation

  "An Interview with Martin Parr – “Boundaries Merely Exist in People's Minds” (2007)". Interview with Maarten Dings and Joachim Naudts, www.americansuburbx.com. May 17, 2010.

• Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That's the great thing about photography.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Photographer, Remember

  "An Interview with Martin Parr – “Boundaries Merely Exist in People's Minds” (2007)". Interview with Maarten Dings, Joachim Naudts, www.americansuburbx.com. May 17, 2010.

• Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Roles, World

• We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach to show aspects of reality.

  Martin Parr

  Fotografía, Realidad, Ideas

• Yo leo muchas de las revistas de fotografía del Reino Unido y en el extranjero.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Magazines

  "Martin Parr: My Media". Interview with John Dugdale, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 2010.

• For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it's a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that are going to make you money.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Facts, Boring

  "The myth and the reality" by Martin Parr, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2010.

• Photography is Art and Art is Photography.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Art, Art Is

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate. Most of the photographs in your paper, unless they are hard news, are lies. Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality... Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Fashion, Lying

• I accept that all photography is voyeuristic and exploitative, and obviously I live with my own guilt and conscience. It's part of the test and I don't have a problem with it.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Guilt, Tests

• Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Color, Snapshots

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