Vivid portraits of village life taken by documentary photographer Martin Parr months earlier than his loss of life at the moment are on show.
Parr, famend for capturing the quiet rituals and absurdities of British life, was commissioned by the Nationwide Belief to seize life in Lacock, Wiltshire, in the course of the spring and summer season of 2025.
The ensuing exhibition, which was his final main fee earlier than his loss of life in December on the age of 73, is at Lacock Abbey till June 2027.
Susie Parr mentioned her husband’s photographs of the village’s flower present, VE Day occasions, annual scarecrow pageant and Girls’s Institute conferences had been a “bittersweet expertise”.
Parr, who lived in Bristol up till his loss of life, rose to prominence within the mid-Nineteen Eighties, together with his research of working class folks on vacation in New Brighton in Merseyside.
In 2017, he was commissioned by the BBC to create new idents for the broadcaster to “seize an evolving portrait of recent Britain in all its range”.
