Martin Parr is a pioneer of contemporary photographic culture, an avid photography book collector and the president of Magnum Photos (2013-2017). His solo exhibitions include large-scale retrospectives of his work in Jeu de Paume (Paris, 2026), Foam Museum (Amsterdam, 2026), Fotografiska (Shanghai & Stockholm, 2025-2026), Neues Museum Nürnberg (Nuremberg, 2025), MUDEC Museo delle culture (Milan, 2024), and other prestigious venues. He is the co-author of three volumes of the highly influential The Photobook: A History, and wrote a book about the History of Chinese Photobook — The Chinese Photobook From The 1900s To The Present — that was published in the spring of 2015. Parr has published over 140 books of his own work and edited another 30.
Parr died in Bristol, UK, in 2025.
