Magnum photographers were meant to go out as a crusade ... to places like famine and war and ... I went out and went round the corner to the local supermarket because this to me is the front line.
Martin ParrI go straight in very close to people and I do that because it's the only way you can get the picture. You go right up to them. Even now, I don't find it easy. I don't announce it. I pretend to be focusing elsewhere. If you take someone's photograph it is very difficult not to look at them just after. But it's the one thing that gives the game away. I don't try and hide what I'm doing - that would be folly.
Martin ParrI toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.
Martin ParrThe thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.
Martin Parr