We Are Martin Parr – Bulletins

The Photography Seoul Museum of Art, in collaboration with Magnum Photos and Martin Parr Foundation, presents We Are Martin Parr, a serious retrospective held in Asia following the artist’s passing.

The internationally famend photographer Martin Parr (1952–2025) spent many years persistently photographing abnormal moments of consumption and leisure unfolding inside on a regular basis life. The images he left behind, formed by his distinctive humor and eager commentary, have grow to be an unlimited panorama via which we expertise up to date visible tradition as we speak.

This exhibition approaches Parr’s pictures not via a single lens centered on social satire or the critique of shopper tradition, however via the candid and direct means of wanting that he sustained all through his life. Figures captured at an uncomfortably shut vary, objects saturated with intense coloration, and a gaze that lingers on seemingly trivial moments all invite viewers to look once more on the on a regular basis scenes they so usually overlook. The individuals in his images will not be distant others, however reflections of ourselves as we speak, as people who devour, get pleasure from, and current ourselves via photos.

The exhibition presents 14 main sequence, spanning from his early works to his later years, alongside greater than 500 images and 90 chosen photobooks revealed over the course of his life. The exhibition additionally consists of his images of the “North Korea” and “South Korea series”, taken during his visits to the Korean peninsula between the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Curated by: Hyunjung Son (Curator), with assistance from Minhoon Lee and Yubin Song (Exhibition Coordinator)

Organized by: Seoul Museum of Art / In collaboration with Magnum Photos, Martin Parr Foundation 

For more information about Photo SeMA, please visit SeMA—Photography Seoul Museum of Art, the place detailed details about the area and the exhibition is on the market.