UEL DV1101- Topic Defined By Me-Martin Parr

Martin Parr is one of my favourite British photographers. He mainly works within the documentary style of photography and is most famously known for he’s critical observations of the British society that we live in, particularly tourism, family, relationships and food. What I love about he’s work is he’s saturated photographs so bright and colourful you would think they would be about wonderful happy things, however really most of he’s work uses semiotics very carefully in representing iconic British symbols, almost making fun of how such a simple think like a cream cake or fish and chips can be so amazingly iconic to Britain and our culture, making us see things that have seemed so familiar to us in a completely new way. He’s work is extremely exaggerated and at times may be extremely entertaining and then others can feel hard hitting as we may see a part of ourselves or past times in he’s photographs, how we live and present ourselves to others. There are 3 main topic areas that Martin Parr seems to stay contained in which are; leisure, consumption and communication of which he examines the national characteristics of how we do these day to day tasks.