Maurizio Cattelan and Martin Parr Collaboration Documented on Sky Arte

A documentary airing on Sky Arte on Thursday, March 4, explores the collaboration between British photographer Martin Parr and Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, co-founder of TOILETPAPERMAGAZINE with photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari. The partnership, rooted in shared tastes for saturated colors, playful impertinence, and ironic social critique, produced a multi-author issue of the magazine and a book titled "Toilet Martin Paper Parr." The visual conversation format sees images from one party answered by the other. The documentary includes footage from a photoshoot and at the magazine's headquarters, as well as a day with Cattelan and Parr at Parr's studio in Bristol. It also covers a joint photographic trip to Greece, featuring gags in local markets, cross-dressing photos, and a mockery of artist Damien Hirst encountered on a Greek magnate's yacht. The Bristol segment introduces the Martin Parr Foundation, which houses Parr's studio and exhibitions of English photographers like Tony Ray-Jones, whose 1960s black-and-white beach reportage prefigures Parr's own beach imagery.