Martin Parr, photographer who transformed the everyday into cultural testimony, dies aged 73

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”

The Brontë Family: A Furnace of Genius on the Yorkshire Moors

Introduction There are literary families, and then there are the Brontës—six children raised in a remote parsonage on the Yorkshire moors, who transformed personal grief, imaginative play, and strict Victorian constraints into novels that altered the course of English literature. Their story is not simply about genius blooming in isolation; it is about a familyContinue reading “The Brontë Family: A Furnace of Genius on the Yorkshire Moors”

V&A East Storehouse: A Backstage Pass to the World’s Great Collections

That old model is changing – and nowhere more boldly than at the V&A East Storehouse, which opened in May 2025 in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.