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===Film and television=== Parr has been involved in making television, and documentary and other films. From 1990 to 1992 Parr collaborated with Nick Barker, taking photographs to accompany Barker's film ''Signs of the Times''. In 1997, Parr began producing his own television documentaries with [[Mosaic Film]]. In 2003 Parr was the subject of and appeared extensively in the ''[[Imagine (TV series)|Imagine]]'' BBC One TV series episode ''The World According to Parr'', directed and produced by [[Rebecca Frayn]], and hosted and executive produced by [[Alan Yentob]].<ref name="nancy-banks-smith" /> He was cameraman on the film ''[[It's Nice Up North]]'' (2006) with comedian [[Graham Fellows]] (as his character John Shuttleworth). The film is a comic documentary filmed over several years in [[Shetland Islands|Shetland]].<ref name="theguardian-logan">{{cite web|access-date=2022-07-22|title='The further north you go, the nicer it gets'|url=http://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/apr/20/1|date=20 April 2006|website=The Guardian}}</ref> In 2007 Parr took part in BBC Four's ''[[The Genius of Photography]]'', a six-part documentary series exploring the history of photography.<ref name="ciar-byrne-telegraph" /> In 2008 he was one of three judges on the Channel 4 series ''[[Picture This (Channel 4)|Picture This]]''.<ref name="ciar-byrne-telegraph" /> In 2014 Parr created "Turkey and Tinsel", a 60-minute deadpan and often hilarious observational video documentary about faux Christmas in small town England.
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