Martin Parr Quotations | Page 2

You can't shoot in sepia, so converting into black and white and then into brown makes everything feel less real.

I would drown in objects if I didn't have the ability to photograph them.

In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work in black-and-white. Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.

My black-and-white work is more of a celebration, and the color work became more of a critique of society.

I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.

Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality. In the cookery pages, the food always looks amazing, right? Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.

Over the years, I have perfected the art of dancing and photographing at the same time: it's a great double act. If you're dancing, you are joining in. If you stand there rigid, you are not in the flow of things.

From the moment the tourist enters the site, everyone has to be photographed in front of every feature of note.... The photographic record of the visit has almost destroyed the very notion of actually looking.

I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch, and I do love big screen documentaries.

I never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group.