Already much-missed photographer Martin Parr is the topic of a brand new large-scale exhibition on the great Jeu de Paume venue, solely a 30-minute stroll from our lodges (which incorporates crossing the Seine and the Tuileries Gardens!)
With 180 images testifying to 50 years of acerbic remark over 5 continents, it’s objectively one of many greatest cultural occasions within the 2026 Paris calendar.
It’s time for a brand new method to understanding Martin Parr’s work, due to the Jeu de Paume and their new exhibition World Warning (geddit?), comprised of works from all through Martin Parr’s profession, even his black and white photographs of the Nineteen Seventies. It is likely one of the final occasions that the photographer helped put collectively earlier than his premature dying in December 2025.
His imaginative and prescient of the human race as sheep in ill-chosen garments, unwittingly contributing to the demise of their very own planet, was shaped in buying centre, on seashores, in vacation resorts… together with his not-so-subtle commentary bolstered by spectacularly queasy color, one thing that rapidly turned his recognisable type.
The title of the exhibition – World Warning – comes from the truth that Parr realised all his photos had oblique hyperlinks to local weather change. He immortalised people obliviously ruining the Earth, and having enjoyable whereas doing so.
With this overarching theme in thoughts, the images within the exhibition are organised into 5 principal sections:
— Lands of leisure, lands of waste, the impression of leisure actions on the setting,
— All the pieces should go!, on consumerism,
— Small Planet, on mass tourism,
— The animal kingdom, on the typically tough cohabitation between people and animals, and
— Technological addictions, from slot machines to video video games, leisure that obsesses us and doesn’t essentially make us smarter.
All these images comprise each a critique of our way of life and a sure tenderness for his or her topics, who’re themselves primarily a product of a world the place generalised chaos now appears to reign.
Linked with the exhibition (principally in French), there are three spherical tables, showings of brief movies in regards to the artist on twenty eighth March and twelfth Might (though unusually, the movie I Am Martin Parr will not be on supply), images programs, workshops…
You’ll discover all the main points right here.
A 216-page English catalogue of the exhibition can also be out there right here at your native Amazon for round 40€.
The exhibition Martin Parr – World Warning is on the Jeu de Paume (right here) from thirtieth January – twenty fourth Might 2026
Open each day besides Mondays from 11am-7pm (9pm Tuesdays)
Admission: 14€ / 9.50€
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