Featuring works from the Tony Ray-Jones archive alongside rarely seen early photographs by Martin Parr, this exhibition explored the relationship between these two important photographers and their fascination with the English.
 
Intrigued by the eccentricities of English social customs, Tony Ray-Jones spent the second half of the 1960s travelling around England, photographing what he saw as a disappearing way of life.
 
Humorous yet melancholy, these images profoundly influenced Martin Parr, who selected works from our Tony Ray-Jones archive for the exhibition, including more than 50 previously unseen photographs.
 
Parr's selection was shown alongside his rarely exhibited series The Non-Conformists, documenting a traditional way of life in decline in 1970s Hebden Bridge.
 
This book accompanied the Tony Ray-Jones exhibition that toured England between 2015 and 2018.
 
13 February–7 June 2015: Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
 
7 July–25 September 2016: The Beaney House of Art and Knowledge, Canterbury
 
25 February–7 May 2017: Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham
 
27 May–3 October 2017: Palace Arts Hub and Kirkleatham Museum, Redcar, North Yorkshire
 
21 October 2017–15 April 2018: Time and Tide, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk