photographer martin parr is the foremost visual chronicler of his fellow britons. to leave the european union. the new exhibition trains his satirical lens on a nation in search of its modern identity. and the continual search for sustainable materials one swiss bag manufacturer has come up with a way to accessorize with fibers from the banana plant. and they 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 new c.m.

habit. and transforms every day materials into striking works that incorporate aspects of. xanax and tapestries even being compared to the paintings. believes in the power of transform. i know consciously when i hope that their work with her. showing the world my fork off on the work and want to write those two people. or weren't but i hope something good to them ok from earlier when people see my work as they do. me how'd this will all 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 reduce materials out of necessity. eleanor sui has developed new works that address the museum's controversial past the house the concert was built in the nazi era in a monumental neo classical style. the exhibition continues until july twenty seventh and will move to much half of the arab museum of modern art in doha in the oed some. 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 which he 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 corner cold 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 with certain i call them certain things that don't change you know things like a country or right they try not to change some things to train so i'm interested in

things that change things that so let me see him trying to capture the essence of britishness and don't ask me what to do that's why i do the pictures that's how i took like myself to all of the three words. it's that love hate relationship together with powers 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. he's going to get sense of humor week 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 brac set for it visited grex a tear 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 those

subjects and and keep shooting. with only human martin parker makes the ordinary look extraordinary. extraordinary indeed and i'm joined by my colleague melissa holroyd from the culture thanks fred for being. a lot of the love hate thing going on there has has exacerbated that for martin park theme of british identity has always been a part of parts photographic work but the brig's 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 brags that looming all maybe not he's not. being given a whole new meaning a big. cause work is also very very playful and many brits as you can probably imagine are very breaks that way area at the moment we're at the moment 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 you things usually recreational things but at only human we have some celebrities in the celebrity room he is one of vivienne westwood and he is one of done families done in the toilet and he is one of the perry family this is something we often see in pas work his use of strong colors against a neutral backdrop or vice versa. yeah. a bit too much there yeah i think 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 photog first noncommercial

photographers to work in color for a long time it was a serious photographer has only worked in black on one and also the level to which pod documents the ordinary and the monday seems to have no limits and many takes photos of the backs of people's necks he takes photo. of teacups he takes the there are thousands of photos that he's taken of people on the telephone nothing is too small too small is and i've actually also heard that he's a he's an almost obsessive collector of a lot of crazy things you collect a lot of stuff he's not only interested in his own photos 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 very handsome and it's very very funny he looks he

looks propped up in a lot of the pitches it's the knitting and other 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 observer of his yeah it's very infectious once you start looking at his pitches you start seeing this 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 martin parr at the national portrait gallery with only human thanks very much for bringing us that and lots of fun stuff. well 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 bendy bananas one of the most persistent myths of new regulation pretty soon they 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 fabric produced using fibers of. 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. 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 forth and he right away we were impressed by its attention and. also known as manilla 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 not on 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 little in taiwan the paper is turned into fabric the paper is cut. that are processed into thread. 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 the more designs are in the works. i gave margarine the course of its developments we also discovered that lots of companies were interested in trying it out and it would be adults if 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 labelled creates urban bags for environmentally conscious transmitters and if their bags ever go out of style they can always just compost them. easy peasy well that's all for this edition of

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