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"I don't take many good pictures. I do a lot of very bad pictures because you have to do a lot of bad ones to get the good ones. So the struggle goes on to try and make a good photo, which is not easy.

Most of the people watching this are not doing very good photography, and that's because they're a bit lazy. They haven't found the right subject. They like the idea of being a photographer, a street photographer perhaps, but they haven't really found their own vision within that.

Most of the books that are published, and there must be two or three thousand photo books published every year, most of them aren't very good. And I guess the reason is that they thought they've got something original, and perhaps they haven't. People overestimate their own talents, and often you can look at it and think, well, I've seen all this before; it's very familiar, doesn't tell me anything new.

I'm looking for a personal insight. Good photography comes from when someone has a good connection to the subject and they've used photography to articulate that, and that really is the bedrock of what all good photography is. So, that's what I'm looking for. But at the same time, I'm looking for that unique situation where it's the photographer and s

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Martin Parr CBE

Martin Parr (born 23 May 1952) is a British documentary photographer, photojournalist and photobook collector. He is known for his photographic projects that take an intimate, satirical and anthropological look at aspects of modern life, in particular documenting the social classes of England, and more broadly the wealth of the Western world.

His major projects have been rural communities (1975–1982), The Last Resort (1983–1985), The Cost of Living (1987–1989), Small World (1987–1994) and Common Sense (1995–1999).

Since 1994, Parr has been a member of Magnum Photos. He has had around 40 solo photobooks published, and has featured in around 80 exhibitions worldwide – including the international touring exhibition ParrWorld, and a retrospective at the Barbican Arts Centre, London, in 2002.

The Martin Parr Foundation, founded in 2014, and registered as a charity in 2015 opened premises in his hometown of Bristol in 2017. It houses his own archive, his collection of British and Irish photography by other photographers, and a gallery.