There are images that do not just document life but turn it into something luminous. Martin Parr transformed the ordinary into pure visual poetry. His eye, his colour, his wit, his truth. A legend whose vision will keep inspiring us forever. ••• #repost @anothermagazine Rest in peace, Martin Parr. It was announced yesterday that the British documentary photographer has died, aged 73. His career began when his grandfather handed him a camera, and gathered pace when he discovered Creative Camera magazine in the late 1960s, immersing himself in the work of Robert Frank and Garry Winogrand. “But what was most exciting for me was seeing the work of Tony Ray-Jones,” Parr told AnOther previously. In 1971, while studying photography at Manchester Polytechnic, he encountered Ray-Jones’ portraits of England in the late 1960s - pictures that, he recalled, stopped him in his tracks. “This was one of those moments when your life is changed. You see something and think, ‘Ahh, this is the aspiration I can look to in terms of work!’” With his compass set, Parr headed out to photograph the coast and countryside of north England and Northern Ireland, creating black-and-white series that laid the groundwork for the next 50 years of his practice. “We are quite an eccentric nation, and the wryness of observation that Tony Ray-Jones did so well was something | aspired to myself,” he said. “There is a humour and there is always a tragedy - especially at the seaside.” At the link in bio, we revisit a recent interview with the photographer, published to mark the release of his autobiography 📲 #MartinParr @magnumphotos