{"id":618636,"date":"2025-12-07T20:36:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T20:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/618636\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T20:36:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T20:36:19","slug":"dad-famous-for-new-brighton-pictures-dies-as-family-pay-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/618636\/","title":{"rendered":"Dad famous for New Brighton pictures dies as family pay tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of Martin Parr’s most famous work included a set of images taken on the WirralBy Hannah Roberts, PA Senior Entertainment Reporter<\/strong> and Paul McAuley<\/strong><\/a> Senior Life Reporter<\/p>\n

18:31, 07 Dec 2025<\/p>\n

\"ItIt was reported that photographer Martin Parr has died on Saturday at his home in Bristol at the age of 73, December 7, 2025<\/p>\n

Renowned photographer Martin Parr has died at the age of 73, his foundation has announced. Martin, who was one of the best-known documentary photographers of his time, died on Saturday at his home in Bristol, the Martin Parr Foundation<\/a> said.<\/p>\n

An Instagram post said: \u201cIt is with great sadness that we announce that Martin Parr (1952-2025) died yesterday at home in Bristol. He is survived by his wife Susie, his daughter Ellen, his sister Vivien and his grandson George. The family ask for privacy at this time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Martin Parr Foundation and Magnum Photos will work together to preserve and share Martin\u2019s legacy. More information on this will follow in due course. Martin will be greatly missed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Martin was born in 1952 in Epsom, Surrey and had cited his grandfather as an influence on his work. The photographer, who was known for capturing the reality of British life, rose to prominence with his vibrant 1980s collection The Last Resort, which showed people at the seaside town of New Brighton<\/a> in Merseyside.<\/p>\n

\"NewNew Brighton. From ‘The Last Resort’. 1983-85.(Image: \u00a9Martin Parr \/ Magnum Photos)<\/p>\n

Among his other exhibitions was Only Human: Martin Parr, which was staged at the National Portrait Gallery in London in 2019 and captured the \u201csocial climate in the aftermath of the EU<\/a> referendum\u201d of June 2016.<\/p>\n

He also teamed up with photographer JJ Waller this year for Beside The Sea, a photo exhibition where more than 65 large-scale images of vibrant seaside life were pasted onto the roofs of bus shelters in Brighton.<\/p>\n

Martin curated the Arles photography festival in 2004, the Brighton Photo Biennial in 2010, and Barbican exhibition Strange And Familiar in 2016, which \u201ccaptured the social, cultural and political identity of the UK\u201d from the 1930s onwards.<\/p>\n

\"NextNext door’s cat comes for a slice of cake at the Atkinson family’s Ainsdale home. They were photographed by Martin Parr for his new exhibition A Birds Eye View<\/p>\n

Martin won an award in 2016, recognising his significant contribution in the field of visual arts, after a nomination by artist Grayson Perry.<\/p>\n

At the time, Grayson Perry said: \u201cHe is such a phenomenon, not just in the body of work that he\u2019s done, which I love and has been hugely influential on me, but also just as a champion of photography as an art form. He is a major player in the whole culture of photography.\u201d<\/p>\n

Martin established a dedicated space for the Martin Parr Foundation in 2017. The foundation preserves photographic works and supports \u201cemerging, established and overlooked photographers who have made and continue to make work focused on Britain and Ireland\u201d, according to its website.<\/p>\n

\"PhotographerPhotographer Martin Parr attends the “Jacquemus X Martin Parr” book signing as part of Paris Fashion Week at Jacquemus Montaigne on October 03, 2023 in Paris, France. <\/p>\n

The photographer reshot his most famous work, with the aid of a mobile scooter, when he returned to New Brighton in 2024 documentary film I Am Martin Parr.<\/p>\n

Speaking about his relationship to his homeland, he told the Guardian in February: \u201cThere\u2019s many things I dislike about Britain. Then there\u2019s all these other things \u2013 the hobbies, the fairs, the agricultural shows, the beaches, Radio 4, a cup of tea \u2013 those I love.<\/p>\n

\u201cPhotographing it all is a form of therapy for me. It\u2019s defined my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Martin was made a CBE in the 2021 Queen\u2019s birthday honours for services to photography. He had been diagnosed with myeloma, a type of blood cancer, the same year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some of Martin Parr’s most famous work included a set of images taken on the WirralBy Hannah Roberts,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,2647,456,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-618636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-new-brighton","13":"tag-real-lives","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115680209016555992","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}