Martin Parr

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

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.

Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.

As the mother of a grown son with a traumatic brain injury, I couldn't be more excited about the prospect of finding out how to repair even a small part of the damage that changed his life.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.