Martin Parr: Dubai

Descripción

"Martin Parr's photographs offer an alternative chronicle of everyday rituals. Documenting localized consumer transactions that make up global tendencies, Parr captures migrations of leisure, communication, culture and labor. Faced with a constant flood of media images and advertising, Parr's photographs portray the world in a unique perspective through an exaggerated, almost grotesque manner. With garish colors and unusual perspectives, Parr has most recently applied his humorously critical eye on Dubai, revealing aspects of the city that we are perhaps too close detect." Read more