Martin Parr: Parking Spaces

A project of Fotodok, hosted by Flatland Gallery. This series shall be on view for the first time in the Netherlands.

Between 2002 and 2007, Martin Parr photographed ‘the last parking space’ available in 41 countries – somewhere you could have parked your car, had you been there at the time. Using a compact camera, and driven by wanting to express “the individual frustration of finding somewhere to park, but on a global level”, this is the latest body of work in Martin’s methodical personal address to the issues of globalization – the desire for a precious parking space being a banal unifier of the middle classes the world over.

Martin Parr
Parking Spaces