Martin Parr
Genre
Martin Parr specialises in Social Reportage Photography, he documents in the happenings of real life within his photos.
Meaning/Analysis
In this particular photo, he is attempting to tell quite a deep and meaningful story. The two elderly folk sat on the bench, are gazing at their surroundings, with quite apparent distaste. I feel as though they are unhappy with what they are looking at because of how dirt and unclean it is. Despite the composition of the photo telling quite a simple story and not looking like a particularly special occasion, both of them are dressed very well, I feel like this relates to the times when they were younger, as that is how they were when they were young. They dressed proper as that is the way they feel things should be done, whereas the world around them today isn't like that anymore.
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