First published in 1996, Small World is one of Martin Parr's most popular and important books. This revised and expanded edition includes over 80 photographs and features many of Martin Parr's most iconic images.

This is a biting and very funny satire in which Martin Parr examines tourism around the world, exposing the increasingly homogenous "global culture" where, in the search for different cultures, those same cultures are destroyed. In a world of "carbon footprints," global warming, and the climate crisis, the questions Martin Parr raised nearly thirty years ago, when the book was first published, are even more relevant today.

While Martin Parr's larger-than-life troupe of tourists appears to be willing participants in a pervasive consumer culture, they are also bewildered victims, at the mercy of larger social forces and trapped by their own insatiable thirst for spectacle. The citizens of Small World become a symbol of the thriving freedoms of Western society, declaring their power and right to travel, choose, and consume.

A member of Magnum Photos, Martin Parr is one of the most renowned photographers in the world today. He has published countless books and his work has been exhibited and published worldwide.