Martin Parr tells climate change story through portraits

“I chose these figures which I made from a Morph Kit. Morph himself sent me the kit, and he’s signed it. I met David Sproxton at the Bristol Silent Film Festival and told him I’d written to Morph when I was a little girl and Morph never wrote back. When I got back to London this kit was waiting for me from Moprh. These two just remind me of how you can get a little piece of your childhood back and how nice it feels."

"In the event of a flood, I would rescue the collected works of Marcel Proust. The Proust books I have hold great sentimental value. This is the edition I used when I wrote my book, "How Proust can change your life", which got me started as a writer."

“I’ve chosen my laptop because if there was a flood and I had to grab something I think a lot of other stuff would be memories which I can store in my mind I can keep those. With the laptop my future is encoded in the hard drive. I’ve got songs, that have not been put fully into words. I wanted to keep this because it’s my future.”

"I’ve chosen my diary, which is a bit dull, but I do use it not so much for what I have written, but what I might write in the future. It’s my therapy. I’ve been keeping it for nearly 30 years. Often, the act of jotting something down makes it difficult to forget. I don’t think I could really do without something to write in. My diary has my stories and jokes in it."

"I would save my passport because I'm always travelling for my work. I'm constantly seen as a 'foreigner' and I need my passport to prove my identity, to keep moving and to carry on my work."

“This is Alan Measles, this is not an object, this is a living god. He is my teddy bear that I have had practically since my birth. I am his bodyguard, a role I take very seriously. If I was in a flood Alan would boss me about, make sure I was alright and that I wasn’t a selfish twit – he’s quite bossy.”

"I chose to save my dog Lucky. My first choice would have been the Rembrandt from the National Gallery, but as I am not allowed to take that, my only other choice to save would be Lucky. I take her with me everywhere, she is very well behaved and in a flood she would be a good companion to have."

"This harmonica was given to me by Stevie Wonder on the closing night of Glastonbury 2010. This was the year we celebrated our 40th birthday. Stevie asked me to join him on stage for the last song of his set. He sang Happy Birthday and gave me this harmonica as a birthday present.”

"My father was an amateur photographer and when he passed away he gave me his most treasured possession – his Rolleiflex camera. I’ve always loved photographyand the ‘caught moment’ which both my father and especially Martin Parr are very good at.”

“The photo is from a family holiday when I was a kid at a holiday camp where I entered a father and son competition with my dad. Sadly we came third but the Butlins photographer took this of us and I have held onto it because I have no negative for it – like most old pictures, if it goes it’s gone forever."

“I have chosen my sketch book because it really represents the whole of my life, I carry it everywhere with me. I sketch to make a note of something that I see and it means that I’ve always got a personal interpretation. I save them and when I’m working on new textile prints and ideas, I’ll bring it out and we can use the ideas.”

“I’d save this woodcut by Edward Gordon Craig of a scene from “King Lear” because no matter how familiar to me it’s become, it always surprises my eye when I look at it."

“I chose a lithograph by Honoré Daumier from the 1860s. I have always admired them and it is wonderful to be able to have the real thing in your home. The funny thing about them is that they’re actually out of newspapers. They are so beautifully drawn and are a kind of a theatre happening on the page, which I find so interesting.”

"I’ve chosen my joke book, which is all my notes, my comedy ideas, things that make me angry and sad and observations about people that I want to turn into material. It has all my jokes from the past year and a half up till now. I carry it all around the world with me because I get ideas when I’m travelling."