CQAF: I Am Martin Parr + Q&A

BBFC RatingCQAF: I Am Martin Parr + Q&A

Showing: 05 May 2025

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Mon 5 May 2025

Certificate12A
Year2024
GenreDocumentary
Director(s)Lee Shulman
LanguageEnglish
CountryUK
Running Time1HR 6MINS
Season Main Programme

The definitive portrait of an extraordinary photographer, this special screening of I Am Martin Parr is presented by QFT, Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival and Source Magazine, and will be followed by an in-person Q&A with Martin Parr.

Since the 1970s, English photographer Martin Parr has held up a sometimes tender, sometimes critical and always mischievous mirror to our times, forcing us to take a hard look at how consumer society has shaped our lives. Discover the maverick behind some of the most iconic images of the past century on an intimate and exclusive road trip across England with the uncompromising Parr, whose subjects, frames and colours have revolutionised contemporary photography.

One of the most controversial photographers of his time, Martin Parr’s images often have the power to both amuse and leave us ever so slightly uncomfortable, caught between laughter and the uneasy recognition of ourselves in his uncompromising portrait of consumer society.

Though he’s now celebrated, collected and exhibited worldwide, Parr’s early work did not find an easy public and was highly criticised for trivialising the working class. Yet, in retrospect, perhaps he was just observing what we often overlook - forcing it into the spotlight as an essential topic of discussion.

Martin Parr has been an avid reader of Source Photographic Review for many years and they will be giving away a copy of the magazine to all attendees.

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