Tributes paid to famed photographer who lived in Boyle
The late Martin Parr.
Tributes have been paid to British photographer Martin Parr who died at the weekend at the age of 73.
Boyle People and Places Facebook page described him as was one of the most influential documentary photographers of his generation.
“In 1980, Martin Parr moved to the west of Ireland and lived in Boyle where he established a darkroom and worked on some of his earliest significant projects. During his time in Boyle, he photographed rural Irish life and nearby communities, work that later appeared in publications such as Bad Weather (1982) and A Fair Day: Photographs from the West Coast of Ireland (1984).
“His years in Boyle remain an important part of his artistic legacy, representing a formative period in the evolution of his photographic voice.”
Parr was a regular visitor to Ireland from the late 1970s. His book, A Fair Day captured aspects of life in Kerry, Roscommon, Leitrim, Mayo, Galway and Sligo. Some 25 of his Irish photographs went on show in Dublin earlier this year as part of the Dublin Street Photography Festival.
His photographic legacy has been captured in over 100 published books.
Parr’s work has been collected by some of the leading museums in the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate in London and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, according to the agency.
Parr curated two photography festivals, Arles in 2004 and Brighton Photo Biennial in 2010. He also curated a Barbican Centre exhibition in London in 2016.
In 2021, he received a CBE, or Commander in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, from Queen Elizabeth II for his services to photography.
