Martin Parr

Martin Parr

Martin Parr is a tourist photographer for Magnum Photos agencies. He travels all over the globe for both commissioned and self set projects.

Ive been following the work of Martin Parr the last few years and have been extremely impressed with the sharpness and saturation of his work. I know that Martin doesn’t use a digital camera but I’m very interested in how he creates such well lit and sharp photographs.

I found out that Martin uses a ring flash on use film camera’s which to be honest they look like they would weigh the camera down a lot. Also I have heard rumours from an interview with Martin Parr that he uses a macro lenses on top of his film camera with a ring flash. I used macro lenses for long distance shots and everything that was not close was out of focus. However this may be different when using a film camera with a ring flash.

Anyways Martin is a huge influence to anyone who interested in urban landscapes and especially documentary photography. Also being a photographer from Britain he is an idol for any sort of up and coming British photographers.

http://www.martinparr.com/MartinParrCV.pdf