Martin Parr's Cherry Blossom set.

This is a link to a set of pictures in the Guardian. Parr was invited to photograph the cherry blossom season tourism in Kyoto.

I cannot make my mind up about Parr's photography. This is a pretty powerful set of pictures describing mass tourism. But there is always a little sneering at ordinary people in Parr's photography. Or is it us the viewer who likes to sneer at this subjects?

I love his photography. I believe no one has documented the daily ordinary life that extensively and strikingly, funny as he has, but I find this particular set a bit mundane. A few quirky shots maybe, but nothing very inspiring.

Yes, for a Magnum photographer, this set is very average. A couple stick in my mind.

He lost a lot of my respect over the Butturini, London "affair". Instead of standing up to rampant cancel culture that infests Britain, he did a massive mia culpa and asked for the book to be pulped, to save his professional skin.

Butturini was a member of the progressive far left here in Italy, and Parr's cowardice was not well received in cultural circles here in Italy. The book was officially withdrawn and pulped, but some second hand booksellers obtained copies. Now that the storm has passed it has quietly resurfaced and is even available on Amazon it

Here are couple of links.You can translate this one in Google with a left click. This one is the UK perspective.

David, he is pretty famous in the UK. He was one of the leading lights in the "Documentary" movement of the Eighties, before conceptual art photography became the thing. His most famous and I think best photography can be found in this book: The Last Resort.