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On Sunday 13 July, the Tempo Half Marathon will begin and end at Compton Verney.

Please note that we are still open to visitors on this day, however there will be a rolling road block in the morning, and the site may be busier than usual due to this event so please allow yourself more time to travel.

The non-conformists
photographs by martin parr

14 March 2015 – 7 June 2015

This exhibition featured the first major body of work by celebrated documentary photographer and satirist Martin Parr.

 

 

Anniversary tea, Steep Lane Baptist Chapel, Calderdale, 1975-80 Martin Parr © Magnum Photos

About the
exhibition

Black and white photographs from the mid-1970s document the Yorkshire mill town of Hebden Bridge and the surrounding Calder Valley.  This remarkable series predates the colour photographs for which Parr was to become so well known in the following decade.

Over a period of five years, Parr documented a community whose traditional way of life, organised around the church and hill-farming, were in decline. This affectionate portrait of the town’s coal miners, chapel-goers, gamekeepers, henpecked husbands and pigeon fanciers offers a unique perspective on a disappearing community.