dinsdag, januari 08, 2008
Martin Parr ondergewaardeerd in eigen land
Magnum-fotograaf Martin Parr beklaagt zich in het Engelse dagblad The Independent over de onderwaardering in Groot-Brittannië van de fotografie als kunstvorm. Dat is ook de reden waarom hij zitting neemt als jurylid in het tv-programma Picture This, waarin zes fotografen in de dop met elkaar concurreren.
Parr werkt meer voor opdrachtgevers op het Europese vasteland dan in zijn eigen land, omdat bladen in Groot-Brittannië naar zijn mening niets geven om fotografie: "One of the things I regret is that magazines now are so lifestyle-orientated that the opportunity to do bigger projects is gone. This is a serious misjudgement on the part of magazine editors. I'm appalled by the fact that Britain is the only developed Western country that doesn't have photography reviewers in its newspapers. We don't like photography as much. We don't have photography festivals – or if we do, they're rather small. We're a nation full of people who are interested in books and words and music and a little bit of art, but we have never really quite liked photography. There are 65 to 70 photography galleries in New York alone. In the UK, there are no more than five and they're all in London."
Parr put hoop uit de populariteit van de fotografie onder de doorsnee-burgers van Engeland, die hun foto's bijvoorbeeld op websites als Flickr plaatsen. Over zijn eigen carrière en de bedrieglijke eenvoud van het medium fotografie merkt hij op: "I feel more confident about what I'm doing. Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work. The really good people are the ones that survive."
Parr werkt meer voor opdrachtgevers op het Europese vasteland dan in zijn eigen land, omdat bladen in Groot-Brittannië naar zijn mening niets geven om fotografie: "One of the things I regret is that magazines now are so lifestyle-orientated that the opportunity to do bigger projects is gone. This is a serious misjudgement on the part of magazine editors. I'm appalled by the fact that Britain is the only developed Western country that doesn't have photography reviewers in its newspapers. We don't like photography as much. We don't have photography festivals – or if we do, they're rather small. We're a nation full of people who are interested in books and words and music and a little bit of art, but we have never really quite liked photography. There are 65 to 70 photography galleries in New York alone. In the UK, there are no more than five and they're all in London."
Parr put hoop uit de populariteit van de fotografie onder de doorsnee-burgers van Engeland, die hun foto's bijvoorbeeld op websites als Flickr plaatsen. Over zijn eigen carrière en de bedrieglijke eenvoud van het medium fotografie merkt hij op: "I feel more confident about what I'm doing. Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work. The really good people are the ones that survive."
# posted by Jan-Edward : 00:04
|