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Martin Parr Foundation to open in Paintworks
Acclaimed Bristol-based documentary photographer Martin Parr is opening a new gallery in the Paintworks.
The Martin Parr Foundation will be a gallery, library and archive centre for his own work and collection.
Housed in the latest extension to the Paintworks, off the Bath Road, it will also be a space to exhibit Parr’s growing collection of works by selected British and Irish photographers and images taken in the British Isles by foreign photographers.
Parr is famous for his documentary photography of life in the UK and further afield. High-profile recent projects include creating a series of video idents for BBC One.
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‘Post-war British documentary photography continues to be underappreciated and I wanted to make a small contribution to rectify this,” Parr said in a statement on the Foundation’s website.
“The Martin Parr Foundation will support and preserve the legacy of photographers who made, and continue to make, important work focused on the British Isles.”
The Martin Parr Foundation is due to open to the public on October 25 with a show of Parr’s 2015 work, Black Country Stories, which documents life in the Midlands over a four-year period.
The exhibition will last just a few months, before it is replaced by images by Scottish documentary photographer Niall McDiarmid in early 2018.
Parr was president of Magnum Photos from 2013 to earlier this year. He has published more than 100 books of his own work and edited another 30.
The Martin Parr Foundation opens at 316 Paintworks, Bs3 4AR, on October 25 2017.
Martin Parr lives in Clifton. Image: Louis Little
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