A new display at the so-called Artist Rooms at Tate Modern, in London, brings together a selection of Martin Parr’s documentary photographs and photobooks spanning 1983 to 2007. The British photographer has spent the past four decades exploring themes of class, leisure and consumer culture at home and abroad. Parr’s work illustrates his ongoing curiosity about our cultural peculiarities and the choices we make: what we buy, wear and eat, and where we go on holiday. The resulting images are at once seductive and grotesque, familiar and strange. “I’m a nosy person,” Parr states, and “there’s no better way of finding out about something than going to photograph it.” The display has been curated by Sarah Allen and is available for viewing at the 4th level of the museum.
