Wiltshire village exhibits Martin Parr’s final photos of scarecrows and prize veg

<p>Pictures from photographer’s return to Lacock after 40 years were taken months before his death last December</p><p>The images are colourful, characterful and thought-provoking. They capture a flower show, a Women’s Institute meeting, a scarecrow festival. A local vicar features, resplendent in a union jack bowler hat, as does a band of bellringers and a bulldog called Billy.</p><p>Four decades after chronicling life in the picture-postcard English village of Lacock in Wiltshire, <a href="https://martinparr.com/">the photographer Martin Parr </a>returned to document what had changed – and what had not.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jun/18/wiltshire-village-lacock-exhibits-martin-parr-final-photos">Continue reading...</a>