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Martin Parr Foundation supports emerging, established and overlooked photographers who have made and continue to make work focussed on Britain and Ireland.

We preserve a growing collection of significant photographic works and strive to make photography engaging and accessible for all.

We are committed to making the Martin Parr Foundation a place for everyone and to reflect the diversity of British and Irish culture.

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a girl for the living room by Rene Matić

13 JUL - 17 SEPT 2023

In 2022 Martin Parr Foundation commissioned photographic artist Rene Matić to develop a new body of work in Bristol. Rene has created an intimate portrait of their friend Travis Alabanza, a Bristol born and based writer, performer and theatre maker. This new work comprises a mix of portraits alongside diaristic still lifes that document Rene and Travis's developing relationship as it became “lit by a table lamp instead of a disco ball.”

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FOUNDATION ARCHIVE

GILLES PERESS
POWER IN THE BLOOD

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…

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