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Photographer Martin Parr’s exhibition focuses on ‘what it means to be British’

Harbhajan Singh, Willenhall Market, Walsall, the Black Country, England, 2011.

By: Keerthi Mohan

by AMIT ROY THE photographer Martin Parr, whose work is on display at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in London, clearly has a thing about Indians, Sikhs especially. Some of his pictures of British Asian life have been taken since the EU referendum in June 2016, while others are from past years, but the overall theme of the exhibition – Only Human: Martin Parr – is “Britain in the time of Brexit”. Parr photographed a group of bhangra dancers in the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh in 2017. He also made a 30-second film about them for the BBC on the…

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