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Martin Parr has died

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Photographer Martin Parr, whose colourful images captured British life, has died at the age of 73.

He died on Saturday at his home in Bristol, the director of the Martin Parr Foundation, Jenni Smith, told BBC News.

In a statement, external, the foundation said he would "be greatly missed" and was survived by his wife Susie, daughter Ellen, sister and grandson. It added the family asked for privacy.

The documentary photographer rose to prominence in the mid 1980s, with The Last Resort, his study of working class people on holiday in New Brighton in Merseyside.