{"id":499299,"date":"2026-06-28T07:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T07:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/499299\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T07:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T07:56:08","slug":"martin-parrs-final-photos-paint-vivid-portrait-of-life-in-lacock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/499299\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Parr\u2019s final photos paint vivid portrait of life in Lacock"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vivid portraits of village life taken by documentary photographer Martin Parr months before his death are now on display.<\/p>\n

Parr, renowned for capturing the quiet rituals and absurdities of British life, was commissioned by the National Trust to capture life in Lacock, Wiltshire, during the spring and summer of 2025.<\/p>\n

The resulting exhibition, which was his last major commission before his death in December at the age of 73<\/a>, is at Lacock Abbey until June 2027.<\/p>\n

Susie Parr said looking at her husband’s photos of the village’s flower show, VE Day events, annual scarecrow festival and Women’s Institute meetings had been a “bittersweet experience”.<\/p>\n

Parr, who lived in Bristol up until his death, rose to prominence in the mid-1980s, with his study of working class people on holiday in New Brighton in Merseyside<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2017, he was commissioned by the BBC to create new idents for the broadcaster to “capture an evolving portrait of modern Britain in all its diversity”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vivid portraits of village life taken by documentary photographer Martin Parr months before his death are now on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-499299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}