Published by Phaidon Press in association with Jeu de Paume, Global Warning accompanies the Paris arts centre’s 2026 exhibition of Martin Parr’s photography. Bringing together more than 175 images made across over five decades, the book considers Parr’s career through the recurring frictions of contemporary life: excessive consumption, mass tourism, technological dependence, and the unstable boundaries between human society and the animal world.

The selection reaches from Parr’s early black-and-white photographs of English holiday parks and rural supermarkets to recent colour work made at crowded attractions and prescribed destinations around the world. Across this span, ordinary leisure, shopping, sightseeing, and public display become evidence of larger social arrangements. Parr’s comedy is rarely separate from discomfort: crowded frames, conspicuous appetites, and incongruous encounters allow satire to operate without resolving the contradictions it exposes.

Global Warning is therefore more than a chronological summary. It repositions familiar pictures alongside less frequently published work, using the present moment of widespread disorder to draw out concerns that have persisted throughout Parr’s practice. An introduction by Jeu de Paume director Quentin Bajac establishes the book’s premise, while essays by Jean-François Staszak, Roberta Sassatelli, Violette Pouillard, and Adam Greenfield approach the photographs through geography, sociology, wildlife conservation, and urban design. These perspectives extend the volume beyond monographic celebration and place its humour within material systems of travel, consumption, habitat, and infrastructure.

For a serious photobook collection, the volume’s interest lies in this sustained editorial reframing. Its 216 pages assemble celebrated images and less familiar material within a single argument about how Parr has pictured globalized behaviour. The combination of a long historical view, an exhibition-led selection, and interdisciplinary writing makes Global Warning a substantive reference for understanding both the continuities in Parr’s work and the changing world against which his photographs register.