“Like an anthropologist armed with Kodachrome, he stepped into the social rituals that shape us, that he too was part of: the queues, the holidays, the celebrations, the markets, the inveterate longing we carry into each public space. He didn’t hold these things at arm’s length. He was in there too, unpretentiously, with the curiosity of someone who never stopped being surprised by the world.” (Charlotte Jansen)
“In Parr’s eyes, the photographs in The Last Resort were not patronising but “lyrical”, a poetic version of the social research project Mass Observation.” (Charles Darwent)
