I am kept awake by the list of possibilities for shooting more photos and deciding what I must prioritise next.
Martin ParrI avoid Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, and if I need to communicate with someone, I email direct.
Martin ParrMagnum 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 always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.
Martin ParrI looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found there was a great distortion of contemporary life. Photographers were interested only in certain things. A visually interesting place, people who were either very rich or very poor, and nostalgia.
Martin Parr