I Am Martin Parr (2024)

“There’s no such thing as a perfect photograph, but every morning you have to believe today’s the day one will happen.” From his humanist documentation of the Yorkshire working class in black and white stills in the 1970s, to the vibrant, kitschy color shots of revelers at a Liverpool beach resort, which cemented his iconic status in the Thatcher era—for fifty years now, British photographer Martin Parr has been holding up a mirror (sometimes soft, sometimes harsh, always cheeky) to his times and our obsession with consumerism. This playful journey across Britain in Parr’s footsteps unfolds in engaging, rapid-fire cuts, showcasing Parr’s ability to encapsulate nuanced tragicomic situations in a single frame and brilliantly capture moments of eccentricity and unstageable vulnerability.