Bored Couples

"Boredom and monogamy are two ideas ingrained like memories in our collective consciousness. Those who choose monogamy are often viewed as traditionalist fools by a certain percentage of the population; while individuals who remain single for long stretches of time are often dismissed as lonely, sad, or incompatible. It’s the type of sweeping, generalized thinking that makes humans such an oddly divisive lot. But it also breeds an amateur anthropological fascination regarding our behavior.

Nearly two decades ago, photographer Martin Parr (biography) publicly examined a random sample of relationships in his book Bored Couples (Galerie du Jour Agnès B., 1993). He had no specific connection to the people he photographed, except that he was looking to challenge the notions of context and perception"

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