photographer martin parr is the foremost visual chronicler of his fellow britons and as the u.k. prepares to leave the european union. a new exhibition trains his satirical lens on a nation in search of its modern identity. and in the continual search for a sustainable materials one swiss bag manufacturer has come up with a way to accessorize with fibers from the banana plant. and a an artist who is says it took him some time to get away from the traditional western ideas of what sculpture should be made of now a new exhibition of his work at the house. takes us through all his material faces his large scale installations made from discarded screw caps from liquor bottles allude to the legacy of colonialism and to rampant consumerism and they're seen differently in every museum in habits. and

transforms every day materials into striking works that incorporate aspects of. a x. and tapestry they've even been compared to the paintings. believes in the power of transform. or. the no car shortly but i hope that their work with her. showing the world. for growth on the work and wonder why those two people don't have control over her but i hope something good to them ok from earlier when people. work to make three since they do. me have the first floor spirito belief that. siri has many fans who are drawn to the beauty of

his works but their appeal is more than just a static his use of recycled african materials is an exploration of global consumerism and draws attention to the way that people in some parts of the world have to reuse materials out of necessity. tsui has developed new works on address the museum's controversial past the house the concert was built in the nazi era in a monumental neoclassical style. the exhibition continues until july twenty seventh and will move to much half the arab museum of modern art. in the old some. well over to london now where on the eve of

a possible breck said an exhibition at the national portrait gallery takes a bittersweet look at the contentious issue of british identity martin parr's photographs are by turns with the surprising dark and even ingenious and he captures the very essence of britishness with all its rites and rituals with a satirical eye and great affection. many realities under one flag the everyday lives of britons photos the color code the idiosyncrasies and quirks of british identity only human is the title of the exhibition by british for the talker feel legend martin power our cars competitors have long been the main focus of his work i guess i love and hate of really the same time a certain i call them certain things that don't change you things like a country fair or right they try not to change some things do change so i'm interested in things that change

a piece of those elements the trying to capture the essence of britishness and don't ask me what to do that's why do the pictures that's how i tick by itself through photography not through words. it's that love hate relationship together with past all right humor that reads oh well i think i learned ironies is a very big part of british identity and maybe a bit of the south hates us well. he's going to get sense of humor weak as people in amusing situations all classes of society i think is where. the exhibition includes works from the past twenty years as well as a chapter that explores britain in the age of black set for it visited rex's here hotspots capturing patrick's ism in all its forms one of powers talents is a knack for getting close to his subjects you have to just do a lot and then you have to have some empathy that you have to go in to get to the

subject and and keep shooting. with only human. makes the ordinary look extraordinary. extraordinary indeed and i'm joined by my colleague melissa holroyd from the culture thanks for it for being. a lot of the love hate thing going on there has exacerbated that for martin park the theme of british identity has always been a part of parts photographic work but the brakes it gives it a whole new context a few years ago some of the images he would have made would have been much more innocent if we can maybe have a look at a couple of them but with the braves that looming all maybe not you know. given a whole new meaning a big. cars work is also a very very playful and many brits you can probably imagine a very brave when area at the moment we're at the moment yeah the extending his

playfulness and his ability to make the viewer think make only human a very timely exhibition that he's done a couple of unusual things for him in this in this exhibition is thrown in a couple of celebrities for instance yes so he's famous for taking photos of ordinary people doing ordinary seeing huge things usually recreational things bought at only human we have some celebrities in the celebrity room he is one of vivienne westwood and he is one of i've done family done in the toilet and he is one of the perry family this is something we often see in pa's work his use of strong colors against a neutral backdrop or vice versa. yeah. a bit too much there yeah but you know it's very interesting because one of the striking things about his work is this use of color he has a long history working with it tell us

a bit about you know he was one of the first the top first noncommercial photographers to work in color for a long time to see you as on you would see in black and white and also the level to which pod documents the ordinary and the monday seems to have no limits to me takes photos of the backs of people's necks he takes photo. of tea cups he takes there are thousands of photos that he's taken of people on the telephone nothing is too small too small that and i've actually also heard that he's a he's an almost obsessive collector of a lot of crazy things he collects a lot of stuff he's not only interested in his. is also interested in the role that photography has in the wider society. in the exhibition only human he also celebrates the kitsch world of self portraits and here he's the star of each and every single picture very so their hands are and it's very very funny he looks he

looks propped up in a lot of the pitches it's one thing adding another is so much humor in his work but there's always this easy balance between comedy and tragedy and it's it's almost infectious this keen observance of his yeah it's very infectious once you start looking at his pitches you start seeing this human and the world around you yet you start seeing the world as in the same way that martin. ok melissa holroyd thanks for bringing us that story that's martin parr at the national portrait gallery with only human thanks very much for bringing us that and lots of fun stuff. on there was a time when certain british politicians tried to sell the idea of brecht's it to their voters with what they called a brussels ban on bended bananas one of the most persistent myths of e.u. regulation pretty soon there won't need to worry much about that but rather might worry there were missing out on the easy trade of sustainable banana fabric which is a new idea from switzerland that's already bearing fruit. bags made from bananas.

they're actually made from banana tanks a fabric produced using fibers of the banana plant the fibers are derived from the fruit itself but from the stocks banana tex was developed by the question bad brand they've already received a design prize for their work from a swiss magazine. question is based here. in recent years its founders who include. and should have experimented with a variety of sustainable materials. on phone. we started off with cotton and spent a couple of years developing an organic cotton fabric. at the same time we experimented with linen hemp and bamboo and in the process we stumbled upon banana

fiber so for me right away we were impressed by it attention and. also known as manila hemp is native to the philippines and has been used to make items such as rope and fishing nets there since the nineteenth century. the plant grows wild in the jungle plantations it doesn't require any irrigation fertilizer or pesticides the fibers are dried nearby and are later turned into paper. when you twine the banana fibers right away and turn them into a yawn and then we've them it produces a really irregular kong but through this intermediary step this paper we can even it out. at a special is leaving the in taiwan the paper is turned into fabric the paper is cut then strips that are processed into thread and then. the resulting fabric makes its way to neighboring china where the bags are manufactured in working conditions that

standard. the bags design also plays a decisive role the details are well thought out the style is casual and functional . the collection is being sold in some two hundred stores worldwide a bag made from banana fiber costs around two hundred twenty euros the model range is limited at present for more designs are in the works. muhajir in the course of its developments we also discovered that lots of companies were interested in trying it out and you would get out there we were a bit surprised by the demand and by the fact that need for sustainable materials is so great across many industries hard to store into a feeling the stream circles east. this was label creates urban bags for environmentally conscious transmitters and if their bags ever go out of style they can always just compost them. easy be easy well that's all for this edition of

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