Making Photobooks: Martin Parr and Lesley Martin in Conversation

Join Magnum Foundation for a conversation with Lesley A. Martin, Aperture editor at large, and Magnum photographer Martin Parr, as they discuss Parr’s long-standing interest in the photobook, from his personal collection of photobooks to the book form as a vehicle for his own work. Parr will present a few of his classic monographs, including The Cost of Living, Common Sense, Life’s a Beach, and Death by Selfie, before a conversation about his role as a champion of the photobook as an autonomous art form.

This event is both in-person and online. Advance registration is required for both virtual and in-person attendees. Please register here.

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Lesley A. Martin is Aperture’s editor at large. She is editor of more than one hundred photobooks and counting, including On the Beach by Richard Misrach (2007); LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Notion of Family (2014); Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness (2017); and The New Black Vanguard by Antwaun Sargent (2019). She was founder and publisher of The PhotoBook Review throughout its ten-year run. Lesley’s writing has been published in IMA magazine, FOAM, and Aperture. In 2012, she cofounded the Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards and, in 2020, she received the Royal Photographic Society Award for outstanding achievement in photographic publishing. Lesley is currently a visiting critic at Yale School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut.

Martin Parr is one of the best-known documentary photographers of his generation. With over a hundred books of his own published, Parr has also edited over thirty photobooks. He has curated two photography festivals, Arles in 2004 and Brighton Biennial in 2010, as well as the Barbican exhibition, Strange and Familiar in 2016. Parr has been a member of the Magnum agency since 1994 and was president from 2013 to 2017. In 2013 Parr became a visiting professor of photography at the University of Ulster. Parr’s work has been collected by many leading museums, including Tate, Pompidou, and MoMA. He established the Martin Parr Foundation in 2017. In 2019 the National Portrait Gallery in London held a major exhibition of Parr’s work titled Only Human.

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Image: Travelling hairdresser, Heptonstall from The Non-Conformists, photographs by Martin Parr. (Aperture, 2013)

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