Martin Parr

Born in 1952, Martin Parr is another documentary photographer that I have started to investigate. He is well known for his critical look at modern society and specifically looks at consumerism, foreign travel, tourism, families and relationships and food.

His style uses lots of saturation and macro lenses along with flash rings.

One thing that I have noticed about his work is that through the decades although times have changed the way in which he photographs is still the same, and they type of things he documents are the same. This can be seen from his recent collection called 'Playas' 2008.

Early work - He previously recorded a trip to the beach to the Liverpool suburb or New Brighton a popular destination in 1980's. He captured the English working class enjoying themselves.

Playas collection Barcelona

Between 2006-8 he spent time on the beaches of South America and produces a collection of images including the couple seen below.

He has a genuinely unique style, and after looking on his website his work is very distinctive. Playas appears to have a very 80's style and yet his work still looks cutting edge and up to date with the current trends.

I love the way in which he uses colour in his images. It makes the image really stands out on the page and I think i am going to use this as one of the techniques for my series of photographs.