You can't miss Toilet Paper on websites because of its distinctive colourful covers. First published in 2010 it looks like a very professionally produced photographic zine. This is a special edition with forty-two pages featuring ten spreads of Martin Parr's work, I think that's his feet on the cover.
Toilet Paper has always had quirky, off-beat photos but what's interesting about this issue is that it's not so easy to tell Parr's work from the usual (or unusual) TP photos. Some are obvious like the Coca-Cola cup and saucer with a distinctive lipstick mark on the cup rim or the tourists photographing the Mona Lisa on their mobiles but did he take the face of the blow-up sex doll? Inside the back cover the credits reveal all but as none of the pages are numbered it's not obvious and the pages are presented as spreads so page one is inside the front cover rather than starting on the right-hand page.
It's a weird and wonderful title, no text, just bleed colour photos (with two hundred screen printing) to stir your imagination.
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