Editing Martin Parr (section)

====Manchester Polytechnic, 1970–1973====
Parr studied photography at [[Manchester Polytechnic]] from 1970 to 1972 with contemporaries [[Daniel Meadows]] and [[Brian Griffin (photographer)|Brian Griffin]].<ref name="val-williams-daniel-meadows">{{cite book | last= Williams | first= Val | title= Daniel Meadows: Edited Photographs From the 70s and 80s | year= 2011 | publisher= [[Photoworks]]| location= Brighton | isbn= 978-1903796467}}</ref>{{rp|24}} Parr and Meadows collaborated on various projects,<ref name="meadows-living-like-this">{{cite book | last= Meadows | first= Daniel | title= Living Like This | year= 1975| publisher= Arrow | location= London | isbn= 0-09-911400-3 | quote = I was, at this time, working closely with a fellow photography student, Martin Parr, and in March we set about documenting the residents of a street in Salford.}}</ref>{{rp|14}} including working at [[Butlin's]] as roving photographers.<ref name="sean-ohagan-john-hinde">{{cite news|url = https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/nov/08/anna-fox-butlins-resort-photography | date = 8 November 2013 | access-date = 29 March 2014 | first = Sean | last = O'Hagan | author-link = Sean O'Hagan (journalist) | website = [[The Guardian]] | title = The height of camp: kitsch, colour and casualwear at Butlins | quote = Parr worked briefly at Butlins in Filey, Yorkshire, as a "walkie" – roving photographer – and was later instrumental in the revival of Hinde's work in the 1980s.}}</ref> They were part of a new wave of documentary photographers, "a loose British grouping, which, though it never gave itself a title have become variously known as 'the Young British Photographers', 'Independent Photographers' and the 'New British Photography'."<ref name="parr-by-parr" />{{rp|49,50}}<ref name="val-williams-daniel-meadows" />{{rp|17}}