Martin Parr in his own words: "People are funny"
December 9, 2025
Parr sadly passed away on December 6, 2025, aged 73. Back in 2016, Professional Photography magazine sat down with prolific Parr to discuss his photo books, wedding photography, and his “laboratory”, the beach.
“You have to laugh. People are funny, aren’t they?” Martin Parr has a keen eye for quirky human behaviour. Where you or I might dismiss an everyday scene of supermarket…