Gavin Parry
Senior Lecturer - Photography
Telephone : 0161 247 1293
Email : g.parry@mmu.ac.uk
Office : Chatham Building / Room 120
Web : www.gavinparry.com
Gavin Parry is a Photographer who is also Senior Lecturer on BA(Hons) Photography Course. Constantly seeking the perfect balance between being an educator and a practitioner. The starting point of all his practice is rooted within a Photo Documentary tradition and the photograph's relationship with the real. Perhaps a photograph is no longer seen as a clear 'window on the world', nevertheless, as a visual form, photography still has an unique relationship with its subject. Parry's work both celebrates and exploits this, with the outcomes becoming a very liberal interpretation of Documentary Photography.
Recent work has included:
"Unwanted gifts".A series of photographs of discarded Christmas presents bought from ebay and shown as part of the "Sex, Death and Flat Pack Furniture" Exhibition (2005),
"Shopkeepers" A series of interviews and portraits of shopkeepers from Burnley Lancashire, looking at the role and social function these people have within localised communities. Commissioned by, and exhibited at Mid-Pennine Arts (2005).
Currently working on a series "Anatomy of an institution", "Facades of Pleasure", "Sick Buildings", and Book "Not just another f***** story"
