London Photography Award Nomination Martin Parr: '[His] work very much belongs to a sentiment of innate curiosity for his fellow human being. Now approaching 60, Martin Parr has published nearly 50 books, and his work has featured in almost 80 different exhibitions across the globe.'

Switzerland. St Moritz Polo World Cup on Snow. 2011. © Martin Parr / Magnum Photos.

The Telegraph: “A new exhibition, Martin Parr: Bristol and West, opening in the city next week, reminds us quite what a ridiculous, contradictory, dysfunctional and occasionally wonderful place Parr finds the world to be. Focusing on the part of the world that he has called home for the past 25 years, its 60 images, both old and new, suggest that whatever else has changed about photography over the intervening decades – the advent of digital cameras, the death of film – Parr’s gaze remains as acute and unsentimental as ever.”

A member of the international photography collective, Magnum Photos since 1994, Parr’s work very much belongs to a sentiment of innate curiosity for his fellow human being. Now approaching 60, Martin Parr has published nearly 50 books, and his work has featured in almost 80 different exhibitions across the globe. His documentary photographs are often so intimate and off-the-cuff that they inspire a certain satire of the subject or situation. In 2002, the Barbican Art Gallery initiated a large retrospective of his work, which went on to tour Europe for five years.