Julie Bullard / Nadia Lee Cohen & Martin Parr
Julie Bullard, a work of photographic fiction by Nadia Lee Cohen and Martin Parr. The book is designed as a late-seventies photo album. It is very closely modeled on an example acquired from eBay, complete with faux leather spongy board covers and a vintage gold metal spiral binding. The photographs are classic Martin Parr – only the subjects have been stylised. Julie Bullard (Nadia Lee Cohen), her sister Jane (played by Scarlett Carlos Clarke) and her mother, Sharon (Frankie Park), all have familial prosthetic noses. The sets are dressed, the characters costumed, the food prepared – it is a full-on fantasy of a very real looking world.
Julie Bullard / Nadia Lee Cohen & Martin Parr
Julie Bullard / Nadia Lee Cohen & Martin Parr
Julie Bullard / Nadia Lee Cohen & Martin Parr
Julie Bullard / Nadia Lee Cohen & Martin Parr
Julie Bullard / Nadia Lee Cohen & Martin Parr
Julie Bullard / Nadia Lee Cohen & Martin Parr
Julie Bullard / Nadia Lee Cohen & Martin Parr
Nadia Lee Cohen
A child of the nineties, Nadia Lee Cohen (1992) grew up on an isolated farm in the English countryside where her parents helped build sets for her earliest photography and film projects in their garage.
Cohen creatively relocated herself in LA in search of the Hollywood scenery that inspired her only to find the real Hollywood Boulevard was one of trashy stores and broken dreams. This sad but true reality became her new source of inspiration. Her photographs and films are character-driven visions of saturated and surreal dreamscapes that capture the manifest pleasures and visceral terrors of the urban environment.
In 2020, her first book Women was published. Six years in the making; the book featured 100 previously unseen portraits resulting in a heartbreaking work of theatrical ambiguity and naked honesty. Women is now in its sixth edition having sold 10,000 copies. Her second book, composed of prosthetically enhanced self-portraits, Hello, My Name Is, gave its name to her first major solo gallery show staged at Jeffrey Deitch in Los Angeles. Works from the first two book projects shared the vast gallery space with video installations and sculptural works. A major critical and commercial success, the show became a landmark on the LA cultural landscape as it was extended through the summer of 2022.
Julie Bullard / Nadia Lee Cohen & Martin Parr
Julie Bullard / Nadia Lee Cohen & Martin Parr
Julie Bullard / Nadia Lee Cohen & Martin Parr
Julie Bullard / Nadia Lee Cohen & Martin Parr
Julie Bullard / Nadia Lee Cohen & Martin Parr
Julie Bullard / Nadia Lee Cohen & Martin Parr
Julie Bullard / Nadia Lee Cohen & Martin Parr
An artist, photographer and filmmaker, Nadia Lee Cohen works inside popular culture. Cinema, commercials, shopping malls and all the lurid leftovers of Western consumerism inspire her art, which then re-enters the mass media in the form of magazine covers, music videos, fashion shoots and Instagram posts. As each circle completes, another level of commentary, criticism and, indeed, popularity is reached. In the worlds of high and low art, Nadia Lee Cohen is raising the floor to reach the bar, as evidenced by her now iconic Rihanna and Lana del Rey Interview Magazine covers or the Kim Kardashian and Macauley Culkin music video made with Charlie Denis in 2024 that The Mail published three successive articles about in an attempt to decide whether it had actually cancelled Christmas.
As a film director, Nadia has worked with Beyoncé, Tyler the Creator and A$AP Rocky amongst many others and her music videos and commercials have been lauded and awarded by jurors of the Cannes Golden Lions, VMAs, SXSW, Berlin Film Festival and Rolling Stone. Most recently, she directed the 2025 film for Aphex Twin’s Korg Funk 5. Sent Zendaya into space for On Running and directed two of her own heroes, John Waters and Kyle Machlachlan in campaigns for YSL and Balenciaga respectively. Recent photographic highlights include shooting Juliane Moore, Chloë Sevigny and, for a special issue of Perfect Magazine, Kate Moss and Ray Winstone together in the hugely endearing love story I’m Not Finished With You Yet.
Arguably her ultimate subject is herself. Nadia has been profiled by Interview, Artnet, Vogue, Dazed, i-D and The Sunday Times. She appears as herself, and as a front row guest at fashion shows and events. These personal appearances blur the lines between artistry and celebrity, and that is her peculiar art. Her most recent appearance as a 50 ft woman bestriding Sunset Blvd for Instagram and Meta, made the point very clearly – Nadia Lee Cohen is bigger than ever.
Julie Bullard / Nadia Lee Cohen & Martin Parr
Julie Bullard / Nadia Lee Cohen & Martin Parr
Julie Bullard / Nadia Lee Cohen & Martin Parr
Julie Bullard / Nadia Lee Cohen & Martin Parr
Julie Bullard / Nadia Lee Cohen & Martin Parr
Julie Bullard / Nadia Lee Cohen & Martin Parr
Martin Parr
Martin Parr is a chronicler of our age. In the face of the constantly growing flood of images released by the media, his photographs offer us the opportunity to see the world from his unique perspective.
Leisure, consumption and communication are the concepts that this British photographer has been researching for several decades now on his worldwide travels. In the process, he examines national characteristics and international phenomena to find out how valid they are as symbols that will help future generations to understand our cultural peculiarities. Parr enables us to see things that have seemed familiar to us in a completely new way. In this way he creates his own image of society, which allows us to combine an analysis of the visible signs of globalization with unusual visual experiences. In his photos, Parr juxtaposes specific images with universal ones without resolving the contradictions. Individual characteristics are accepted and eccentricities are treasured.
Martin Parr sensitizes our subconscious – and once we’ve seen his photographs, we keep on discovering these images over and over again in our daily lives and recognizing ourselves within them. The humor in these photographs makes us laugh at ourselves, with a sense of recognition and release.
–Thomas Weski
With over 100 books of his own published, and another 30 edited by Parr, his photographic legacy is already established. Parr also acts as a curator and editor. He has curated two photography festivals, Rencontres d’Arles in 2004 and Brighton Biennial in 2010. More recently Parr curated the Barbican Centre exhibition, Strange and Familiar. Parr has been a member of the Magnum agency since 1994 and was President from 2013–2017. In 2013 Parr was appointed the visiting professor of photography at the University of Ulster. Parr’s work has been collected by many of the major museums, from the Tate, the Centre Pompidou and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Martin Parr died 6th December 2025 at home in Bristol.
Julie Bullard / Nadia Lee Cohen & Martin Parr
22.5 x 16.5 cm, 128 pages – First edition of 2,500
Published by IDEA
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