{"id":438379,"date":"2026-02-21T18:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T18:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/438379\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T18:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T18:50:08","slug":"new-photography-exhibition-in-bristol-celebrates-martin-parr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/438379\/","title":{"rendered":"New photography exhibition in Bristol celebrates Martin Parr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Parr&#8217;s works were known for capturing the smallest details of everyday life. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His photographs were playful and had humour, but also provoked debate and discussion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When the photos were exhibited at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 1986, Parr was berated for being patronising and voyeuristic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;People from London and the South East, they really didn&#8217;t know what places in the North looked like,&#8221; said Parr before his death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The litter was quite terrible, but they just weren&#8217;t used to it; so it was almost like it was my fault that the place looked so scruffy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parr&#8217;s works were known for capturing the smallest details of everyday life. His photographs were playful and had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-438379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}