Parrworld – The Guardian

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Parrworld | Visual art review

Baltic, GatesheadKitsch, bling and deadpan satire are all on show in Martin Parr’s terrific new collection of photographs and memorabilia, writes Alfred Hickling

via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/nov/02/parrworld-review

Martin Parr has said that he doesn’t take photographs, he collects them. This terrific show, spread over two floors at Baltic, takes the unusual but inspired approach of combining new work Parr has collected on film alongside the bits of bric-a-brac he collects on impulse.

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