Overview
- The Martin Parr Foundation announced his death and said it will work with Magnum Photos to preserve and share his legacy.
- He is survived by his wife Susie, his daughter Ellen, his sister Vivien and his grandson George.
- No further details on the circumstances were released, though the Guardian previously reported a cancer diagnosis in May 2021.
- Parr became known for colour-saturated, satirical images of everyday life, with The Last Resort (1986) marking a shift in British documentary photography.
- He joined Magnum Photos in 1994, later served as its president from 2014 to 2017, founded his Bristol-based archive in 2014, and recently published the autobiographical Utterly Lazy and Inattentive.