Martin Parr

Martin Parr is one of the most celebrated documentary photographers of his generation. With over 100 books and 30 more published by him, his photographic legacy is already established.
Parr also acts as curator and publisher. He has curated two photographic festivals, Arles in 2004 and the Brighton Photo Biennial in 2010. More recently, he curated the exhibition Strange and Familiar at London's Barbican Center.
Martin Parr has been a member of the Magnum agency since 1994 and was its President from 2013 to 2017. In 2013, Parr was appointed Associate Professor of Photography at the University of Ulster (Northern Ireland).
Martin Parr's work can be found in the collections of major museums, including the Tate, the Centre Pompidou and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 2017, Martin Parr established the Martin Parr Foundation.
In 2019, London's National Portrait Gallery hosted a major exhibition of his work entitled "Only Human".

OUR ENGLISH NEIGHBORS

In 2020, a year marked by the Brexit, Planches Contact wanted to give a nod to England with iconic photographs by Martin Parr, dedicating an exhibition to him in Deauville for the first time. The choice fell on the "The last resort" series, a work produced between 1982 and 1985, on the vacations of families of modest means in New Brighton, a seaside resort in decline. With irony, sarcasm and sometimes tenderness, he tells the story of the transformation of lifestyles and the development of consumer society. This series, published and presented at the Rencontres d'Arles in 1986, is now "cult". 

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Exhibition from October 17 to January 3, 2020 - On the beach - Opposite Place Claude Lelouch