Martin Parr is one of Britain' most famous photographers, and his 1996 book Small World is a highly sought after collectors' item.

A new edition of Small World has just been published. The relaunched, revised and reissued book contains many additional photographs, as well as a new introduction by Geoff Dyer, award-winning author of The Ongoing Moment.

Small World is a biting, very funny satire in which Parr looks at tourism worldwide, exposing the increasingly homogenous ‘global culture’ where in the search for different cultures those same cultures are destroyed. The issues that Parr raised a decade ago when the book was first published are even more relevant today.

While Parr’s larger-than-life troupe of tourists appear willing participants they are also bemused victims – at the mercy of larger social forces and locked into their insatiable craving for spectacle.

Martin Parr is one of the best known and most influential photographers in the world. In an average year he has more than 50 exhibitions in galleries across the world.

Small World is published by Dewi Lewis Publishing, priced £25 (ISBN 9781904587408). Buy the book

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