Martin Parr

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

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

In New York, you have the street; in the U.K., we have the beach. I end up being like a migrating bird, being attracted to it.

I feel sorry for generations of Labour voters and supporters who must look and wonder what on earth has gone wrong and what Labour is for.

People really do make the assumption that I had some weirdo Hollywood upbringing, but my parents are incredibly down-to-earth people who worked really hard to raise us in a way that was health.

Straight men just can't imagine the bliss of being in a relationship with someone who finds farting as funny as they do.