If figures such as Grayson Perry, Tracey Emin, and every art school insider speaking in a fake Cockney accent delight in fetishising Martin Parr’s “ordinary” Britons, what does that ultimately reveal?
Over a career spanning more than half a century, Martin Parr, who captured the absurdity and warmth of British life with a unique gaze—from The Last Resort to his critiques of global tourism, making visible the social reality behind ordinary moments—passed away