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Last weekend Britain lost its “national photographer” with the death of Martin Parr. Among the powerful tributes we published to Parr was the photography writer Charlotte Jansen’s, who wrote that Parr “understood that the fluorescent glow of a chip shop could be as revealing as a cathedral; that the colour of a plastic beach bucket could anchor the entire mood of a nation”.
‘I drunkenly hugged him and said I love you, Martin Parr!’ Grayson Perry, Don McCullin and more on Britain’s national photographer
A career in pictures
Martin Parr obituary
