Discover the lives and legacies of two groundbreaking photographers in these unmissable new films. I Am Martin Parr offers an intimate portrait of the British photographer who revolutionised contemporary image-making, while Ernest Cole: Lost and Found uncovers the extraordinary story of the South African artist who exposed apartheid’s brutal realities.
I AM MARTIN PARR
Photos © Magmum Photos, Martin Parr
Since the 1970s, English photographer Martin Parr has held up a sometimes tender, sometimes critical and always mischievous mirror to our times, forcing us to take a hard look at how consumer society has shaped our lives. Discover the maverick behind some of the most iconic images of the past century on an intimate and exclusive road trip across England with the uncompromising Parr, whose subjects, frames and colours have revolutionised contemporary photography.
In UK and Irish cinemas from 21 February with special Q&A previews with Martin Parr and filmmaker Lee Shulman from 19 February.
ERNEST COLE: LOST AND FOUND
Ernest Cole, a South African photographer was the first to expose the horrors of apartheid to a world audience. His book House of Bondage, published in 1967 when he was only 27 years old, led him into exile in NYC and Europe for the rest of his life, never to find his bearings. Raoul Peck recounts his wanderings, his turmoil as an artist and his anger, on a daily basis, at the silence or complicity of the Western world in the face of the horrors of the Apartheid regime. He also recounts how, in 2017, 60,000 negatives of his work were discovered in the safe of a Swedish bank.
In UK and Irish cinemas from 7 March with special Q&A previews with filmmaker Raoul Peck from 26 February.