Martin Parr, the British photographer whose saturated colours, wry humour and unflinching eye reshaped documentary photography, has died aged 73 at his home in Bristol on 6 December 2025. Born in Epsom, Surrey, in 1952, Parr’s interest in photography was encouraged early by his grandfather, himself a keen amateur. He studied at Manchester Polytechnic inContinue reading “Martin Parr, photographer who transformed the everyday into cultural testimony, dies aged 73”
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Slim Aarons: The Man Who Photographed the Good Life
“Attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places.” Slim Aarons’ pithy description of his own work became both motto and myth. For decades, he chronicled the leisure class — sun-dappled heiresses in Palm Beach, bronzed movie stars in Palm Springs, aristocrats lounging on the Côte d’Azur. His images became shorthand for mid-century glamour: candid yetContinue reading “Slim Aarons: The Man Who Photographed the Good Life”
Diane Arbus: The Mirror and the Mask
Few photographers have unsettled the boundaries of art, beauty, and truth as profoundly as Diane Arbus. Born in New York in 1923 into the Russek fur dynasty, she seemed destined for a life of privilege, yet she turned her lens away from society’s glittering surfaces. Instead, she sought out what others averted their gaze from:Continue reading “Diane Arbus: The Mirror and the Mask”
Lee Miller at War: The Camera as Witness
When Lee Miller picked up her Rolleiflex and walked into the ruins of Europe, she left behind the world of glossy magazine covers and Surrealist salons. Her photographs of World War II — published in Vogue between 1940 and 1945 — transformed her from a society beauty into one of the most unflinching photojournalists ofContinue reading “Lee Miller at War: The Camera as Witness”
Lee Miller: Beauty, War, and the Alchemy of Reinvention
Lee Miller (1907–1977) lived many lives, each more improbable than the last. She was first a fashion model of startling beauty, then a Surrealist muse in Paris, then a groundbreaking war photographer who witnessed some of the darkest scenes of the twentieth century. By the end of her life, she had retreated into the quietContinue reading “Lee Miller: Beauty, War, and the Alchemy of Reinvention”
Gordon Parks: A Life in Light and Shadow
When you look through Gordon Parks’ photographs, you see more than what’s in the frame. You see longing—for justice, for dignity—behind a lens that knows both tenderness and confrontation. Parks (1912–2006) was many things: photographer, filmmaker, writer, musician. But at the core of all these roles was a mission: to see, to show, to challenge.Continue reading “Gordon Parks: A Life in Light and Shadow”
Robert Redford, Screen Icon and Champion of Independent Film, Dies at 89
Robert Redford, whose magnetic presence on film and unwavering commitment to nurturing independent voices reshaped American cinema over six decades, died on September 16, 2025. He was 89. According to his publicist, Cindi Berger of Rogers & Cowan PMK, he passed away peacefully in his sleep at his home in the mountains of Utah, surroundedContinue reading “Robert Redford, Screen Icon and Champion of Independent Film, Dies at 89”
My World of Interiors 