Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.
Martin ParrChoosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of propaganda.
Martin ParrThe thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.
Martin ParrI have been photographing people dancing for 20 or 30 years now, and I think I will eventually do a book of dancing photos.
Martin ParrFor 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 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