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A Year in the Life of Chew Stoke Village by Martin Parr
19 JAN - 09 APR 2023
In 1992 Martin Parr immersed himself in the rural Somerset village of Chew Stoke, situated on the outskirts of Bristol, where he spent a year documenting village life. This resulted in an early Parr body of social documentary photography and was originally a commission for The Telegraph Magazine.
Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi will join Martin Parr Foundation to discuss her creative practice in a rare chance to hear Rinko talk photography in the UK.
Gilles Peress spent much of the 1980s attempting to describe the totality of life within the conflict raging in the North of Ireland: Days when big events happened and days when nothing happened, the smell of beer, the passage of time…