Not my cup of tea.
Too "smart" no "essence" in my opinion.
Well, maybe should have stopped at "Not my cup of tea."
"Too stupid" happens quite often. Nothing, on the other hand, is ever "too smart." Intelligence is a virtue.
As for "no essence," how you don't get that Martin Parr, the man and his photos, is quitessentially British—i.e., that he managed, over and over again, to translate into images the very essence of a certain Englishness, its life, its humour, its absurdities, its idiosyncrasies, of the working and the middle class—is beyond me.
The man looked at the world around him, through the filter of his eyes, mind and character understood the world around him, and managed to photograph all that. If that's not "essence," then there is no such thing as "essence."
Just to be clear: Marin Parr's photography is not my cup of tea. In the sense that it's not how I photograph, or what I photograph. But I have boundless admiration for what he has achieved as a photographer, and I know there is a small part of the world I understand a bit better because of his photography.
And we won't even go into what the Martin Parr Foundation does for photography.