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00:00Martin's very unassuming and brilliantly ordinary but he's one of the greatest photographers of all time.
00:19You instantly know when it's a Martin Parr photograph.
00:23Finding beauty in the trashy.
00:26And you can't predict how and when they'll happen but that's the fun, that's what keeps me being a photographer.
00:34I took my first photo of my father on the frozen stream.
00:38The excitement was fantastic and by the age of 13 or 14 I wanted to be a photographer.
00:46Hi there, may I do a quick portrait?
00:49Back in the 70s a serious photographer worked in black and white.
00:53When I moved to colour it was very controversial.
00:56I don't think anyone had ever photographed like that before.
01:00Shall we have a picture together?
01:02I don't know, I'm not going to take it.
01:07He's changed the way we look.
01:13He's got a sharp eye for the culture of British society.
01:19You know people don't pay attention, Martin pays attention.
01:22I like to try and understand what people are like just by looking at them.
01:31A sense of humour.
01:33Politics.
01:35Humanity.
01:37Kitsch.
01:39A true genius.