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29/05/2026

DEADLINE THIS WEEKEND / 31 MAY to submit your application to have a stall at BOP 26 🤓 bit.ly/4jsrnP4

This year BOP will take place on 17 and 18 OCT and coincide with the opening week of Bristol Photo Festival.

We'll be starting our series of Instagram takeovers next week, in which publishers showcasing new work at BOP will be sharing a little behind what they have been up to and what they will be bringing to the festival weekend ⭐️

In the meantime, we’re busy confirming some exciting activities for the BOP 26 programme, which we will be able to share more information on shortly.

BOP is Bristol’s annual photobook festival, brought to you by Martin Parr Foundation.

Photo - Tokyo, Japan, 2000 © Martin Parr / Magnum Photos

28/05/2026

The MPF gallery and bookshop are now CLOSED while we paint the gallery a 'tangerine' orange as we prepare to install our next exhibition 👉 Tangerine Dreams by Sophie Green

04 JUN, 6-8PM join us for an evening of photography and a Lost and Grounded Brewers beer at our exhibition party to launch the show.

FREE event / no RSVP required

We have an exciting programme of events lined up to coincide with the show, which we will announce in full shortly 👀

Thank you to everyone who came to visit The Last Resort, 40 Years On, our exhibition celebrating the life and career of Martin Parr.

23/05/2026

Today would have been Martin Parr's 74th birthday 💙

When not away on shoot, Martin was at the Foundation on a day-to-day basis, making rounds of tea for the team, developing his latest works, welcoming visitors, tidying away the recycling, and calling out to the studio from the MPF library to put on a House, Daft Punk or Van Morrison playlist.

We miss Martin greatly. While we continue to adapt to a new rhythm here at the Foundation without him, we have been overwhelmed by the outpouring of love from the photography community and those who have been influenced by Martin or touched by his work.

Martin will always be in our hearts.

Photo - Alvin Gates photography studio, Chicago, USA, 2010. From the series Autoportrait © Martin Parr Collection / Magnum Photos

22/05/2026

Following Martin's death on 06 December 2025, we changed our programme at Martin Parr Foundation so we could celebrate Martin's life and remarkable career in photography. This resulted in the current MPF exhibition, The Last Resort, 40 Years On. Thank you to everyone who has visited and helped us honour Martin Parr.

The exhibition closes this weekend / 24 MAY. Visit the MPF gallery - THURS to SUN, 10am to 5pm - for the final days to explore Martin's most iconic series, The Last Resort.

Photo - New Brighton, England, 1983-85. From The Last Resort © Martin Parr / Magnum Photos

20/05/2026

The deadline to apply to take part in BOP Bristol 26 is end of next week / 31 MAY ⏳ BOP is Bristol’s annual photobook festival, brought to you by Martin Parr Foundation. Full details on how to apply 👉 bit.ly/4jsrnP4

Join us for the 7th edition of BOP and showcase your work to 2000+ visitors across the festival weekend! This year BOP will take place on 17 and 18 October and is held across the Paintworks compex in .

Spaces are available to publishers specialising in photobooks and photographers who have self-published a photobook of their work.

As usual, the BOP festival weekend will be accompanied by a programme of artist talks, exhibitions, book signings and events. Full details coming soon 👀

Photo - Marathon competitors, Hawaii, USA, 1993 © Martin Parr / Magnum Photos

04/05/2026

The winner of the 2026 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize will be announced in less than two weeks 👀 Nominee Amak Mahmoodian joins us on WED 06 MAY for an artist talk on her series One Hundred and Twenty Minutes. This work is currently on display at The Photographers' Gallery in London as part of the Deutsche Börse exhibition.

Join us next week for a special artist talk and to hear Amak share the working processes and journey of collaboration behind this series. Full details and booking 👉 bit.ly/4ulcRyj

For this project Amak has worked closely with sixteen collaborators over a period of six years, holding long-term conversations on recurring dreams and the effects of exile on memory and identity. Each of the sixteen collaborators are living in exile from their home country.

Photo from One Hundred and Twenty Minutes © Amak Mahmoodian

03/05/2026

Here is behind the scenes look at the printing of the next MPF exhibition 👉 Tangerine Dreams: Rituals of Belonging in Contemporary British Life by Sophie Green.

Sophie has been working closely with Martin Parr Foundation as we develop test prints together, adjusting the colour tones and balance the details in the highlights and shadows with the overall contrast of the image. After several rounds of refining, we produce the final exhibition prints.

04 JUN join us at Martin Parr Foundation in Bristol for the opening party to launch the show ✨

26/04/2026

Niall McDiarmid was the photographer behind our second ever exhibition here at Martin Parr Foundation, Town To Town, which was on display 31 JAN to 12 MAY 2018 📸 The show featured more than 70 of Niall's colourful portraits taken across Britain.

07 MAY Niall joins our friends at Offspring PHOTO MEET to give an artist talk about his creative process, ongoing projects, and the restless curiosity that has driven him to make portraits across Britain for over a decade. Full details and booking over at 👉 Offspring Photo Meet

Here is a look back at a selection of images from Town to Town 💛

Photos from Town to Town © Niall McDiarmid

24/04/2026

Here is a behind the scenes look at the printing of our new hardback publication to accompany our current exhibition, The Last Resort, 40 Years On 🍦 bit.ly/4mOh8b7

We worked closely with our friends and local printers Taylor Brothers on the production 💪 Here you can see some of our team on press with reference prints for the printing, which was done using offset lithography.

The exhibition catalogue brings together many images from The Last Resort alongside new texts, a look at Martin's contact sheets from the time, as well as an insight from Peter Brawne, who worked with Martin to design the original 1986 publication. This has been co-published by MPF and Dewi Lewis 🙌

Full publication details or get your copy 👉 bit.ly/4mOh8b7

14/04/2026

APPLICATIONS are OPEN to take part in BOP 26 ⚡️

Join us for the 7th edition of our annual photobook festival and showcase your work to 2000+ visitors across the festival weekend! This year BOP will take place on 17 and 18 October and is held across the Paintworks compex in Bristol, brought to you by Martin Parr Foundation 🙌

Spaces are available to publishers specialising in photobooks and photographers who have self-published a photobook of their work. We can't wait to see what everyone has been up to!

Full details on how to apply via the BOP website 👉 bopbristol.org/apply

DEADLINE / 31 MAY

As usual, the BOP festival weekend will be accompanied by a programme of artist talks, exhibitions, book signings and events. We're busy confirming some exciting activities, which we will be able to share more information on shortly.

Photo - Bristol, England, 1997. From Common Sense © Martin Parr / Magnum Photos

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