Martin Parr likes to describe himself as a photographer who likes to photograph the British at play. He’s published over 100 hundred books containing his own unique still of photography and appears to be big in France going by the size of the line at a book signing. Parr has been taking photographs since the 70s but the chances are that the average cinema goer will never have heard of him. Who is Martin Parr? might have been a better title.

Director Lee Shulman’s documentary sets out to rectify that as we follow Parr, complete with his walking frame for support, as he visits mostly seaside towns where he photographs the slightly eccentric behaviour of the British public. Interspersed between his wanderings we are either shown some of his many photographs, and there’s a lot, or we get someone praising him to the heavens.

Director Lee Shulman’s documentary, which takes us through a whistle stop tour of the man’s work from his early work in the 70s to the foundation that he has set up in his name, might not sound like the most riveting of watches but rather surprisingly there’s something engrossing in the way Shulman puts over his story.

I Am Martin Parr is a film filled with colour and sunshine and is much more enjoyable and interesting than a film about an elderly photographer has any right to be. Highly recommended.