This document discusses three photos by British photographer Martin Parr. The first photo shows seagulls eating leftover chips on a British beach, seen as a commentary on consumerism. The second photo shows tourists posing to hold up the leaning Tower of Pisa, more interested in photos than the landmark. The third photo juxtaposes a mother and daughter sunbathing next to a muddy digger on a beach, highlighting litter and edited colors in Parr's work.

1. Martin Parr Photography
In this picture we can see what looks to be a British beach with two seagulls
eating leftover chips from a Styrofoam tray. We can see that this is a British
beach from to large union jack that’s just off from the centre of frame. The
seagull is a very common animal to see around the beaches and most people see
them as pests due to them stealing food from peoples hands and eating litter
from the beach. This photo might be a commentary on the British consumerism
due to the full tray of chips that the seagulls are eating. This shows that many
people would be more likely to buy food that they don’t need and leave it in
places where the “pests” are able to get at it. As in most of Martin Parr’s work we
can see juxtaposition as these seagull are contrasting with the food that they are
eating which are the chips, a seagull that lives away from humans would fish for
food rather than scaving left over food of the ground.
In this photo we can see tourists in front of the Tower of Pisa we can see that
they are all doing the same pose in front of the tower to make it look like they are
holding up the tower. This is a very popular tourist style photograph and we can

2. see that from the three people in the photo doing this. With this photo we can see
many of the people are not interested in the tower its self they are more
interested in getting a photo of them holding up the tower. This photo was
shown in the Tom Blau Gallery in London the exhibition was called Autoportrait
and it was in the year 2000. This was a important exhibition as it was his first
one back in England after touring different country’s with his work.
In this photo we can see a mother and daughter sunbathing on what looks like a
beach, but next to them is a large digger that is covered in mud and sand. Martin
Parr uses pictures like this to give a view of British culture that isn’t usually seen
in other photographers work. There is a very obvious juxtaposition in this
picture due to that a beach is usually pictured as clean sand and sea, but with this
picture we can see that these people have there view of the sea and the rest of
the beach and they still have litter around them on the beach. In this picture we
can see the different way that Martin Parr edits his photos we can see that he has
over saturated the picture so that the woman seems pinker and that the colour
stands out with the rest of the picture.