About the Author

David Goldblatt was born in 1930 in Randfontein, South Africa, the son of Lithuanian-Jewish parents. He became interested in photography in high school, and started his professional career in 1962. Goldblatt's photographs are in the collections of the South African National Gallery, Cape Town; the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. One of the leading member of Magnum Agency, Martin Parr has been a professional photographer for more than 30 years. His work is photography at its best: Parr photographs ordinary people, urban spaces, scenes in everyday life, and transform them into stories