Martin Parr, one of Britain’s best-known contemporary photographers, and President of Magnum, the world-famous photographic agency is currently undertaking a photo-documentary book project.  With the working title of Oxford it is to be a collection of around 100 photographs documenting an academic year in the life of the university. Whilst it will be centred on a selection of colleges, it will also look at other aspects of university life. His photographs are to be accompanied by a text of around 22,000 words in the form of an extended essay that draws on, and enriches, the photographic material and is to be penned by Simon Winchester, OBE, the British writer, journalist…