Martin Parr suffers from acute “collectomania.” Almost anything goes: souvenirs, postcards, gadgets of all kinds and, of course, photographs. But only one item drives Parr to travel the world to…
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For the release of the The Photobook: A History (Vol. 3), Le BAL in Paris organized a discussion with the authors, Gerry Badger and Martin Parr, who presented a selection of ten photobooks featured in…
After Britain (Think of England, 2000), Mexico (2004-2006) and Luxembourg (LUX, 2009), now it’s Paris’s turn to give Martin Parr carte blanche. For nearly 35 years, the association Paris Audiovisual and the…
Designed to complement the exhibition at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, the publishers Xavier Barral and Ponchet Plan-Net have joined forced to realize an amazing book gathering some forty…
Martin Parr, whose prolific body of work is identifiable by its caustic, kitschy colors and the grotesquerie of the situations, has taken pains to photograph proletarian culture in order to…
Rachel Marsden and the ARTicle Gallery of Birmingham have joined forces to organized a rare joint exhibition of young Chinese and English artists. The seventeen artists, brought together for the first…
This series by Jannatul Mawa explores the relationship—or rather, the non-relationship—between domestic workers and their employers in Bangladesh. These women may see each other every day, and the maids may know…
This is the fourth edition of the sole photojournalism prize in Portugal. The conditions of participation restrict its impact while legitimizing its purpose, since there are two ways to apply:…
For the past five years, in addition to the photojournalism award, Estaçao Imagem has awarded a scholarship for work dedicated to the Alentejo region of Portugal. This prize was created…
The apocalypse described by Louis Barthas in his war diaries is starkly captured by photographs taken at the time: ravaged landscapes, pulverized crops, towns and villages in ruins, ancient trees chopped…