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Chris Steele-Perkins
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Christopher Horace Steele-Perkins is a British photographer and member of Magnum Photos, best known for his depiction of Africa, Afghanistan, England, and Japan. Wikipedia
Born: July 28, 1947 (age 71 years), Yangon, Myanmar (Burma)
The pleasure principle (1989)
The pleasure principle
1989
Afghanistan (2000)
Afghanistan
2000
Northern Exposures: Rural Life in the North East (2007)
Northern Exposures: Rural Life…
2007
Fading Light: Portraits of Centenarians (2012)
Fading Light: Portraits…
2012
Fuji: Images of Contemporary Japan (2001)
Fuji: Images of Contemp…
2001
Survival Programmes in Britain…
1982
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The pleasure principle (1989)
The pleasure principle
1989
Afghanistan (2000)
Afghanistan
2000
Northern Exposures: Rural Life in the North East (2007)
Northern Exposures: Rural Life…
2007
Fading Light: Portraits of Centenarians (2012)
Fading Light: Portraits…
2012
Fuji: Images of Contemporary Japan (2001)
Fuji: Images of Contemp…
2001
Survival Programmes in Britain…
1982
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Chris Steele-Perkins

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topher Horace Steele-Perkins (born 28 July 1947) is a British photographer and member of Magnum Photos, best known for his depiction of Africa, Afghanistan, England, and Japan.

Life and career

Steele-Perkins was born in Rangoon, Burma in 1947 to a British father and a Burmese mother; but his father left his mother and took the boy to England at the age of two.[1] He grew up in Burnham-on-Sea.[2] He went to Christ’s Hospital and for one year studied chemistry at the University of York before leaving for a stay in Canada. Returning to Britain, he joined the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where he served as photographer and picture editor for a student magazine. After graduating in psychology in 1970 he started to work as a freelance photographer, specializing in the theatre, while he also lectured in psychology.

By 1971, Steele-Perkins had moved to London and become a full-time photographer, with particular interest in urban issues, including poverty. He went to Bangladesh in 1973 to take photographs for relief organizations;[3] some of this work was exhibited in 1974 at the Camerawork Gallery (London). In 1973–74 he taught photography at the Stanhope Institute and the North East London Polytechnic.[3]

In 1975, Steele-Perkins joined the Exit Photography Group with the photographers Nicholas Battye and Paul Trevor, and there continued his examination of urban problems: Exit’s earlier booklet Down Wapping[4] had led to a commission by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to increase the scale of their work, and in six years they produced 30,000 photographs as well as many hours of taped interviews.[5] This led to the 1982 book Survival Programmes. Steele-Perkins’ work included depiction from 1975 to 1977 of street festivals, and prints from London Street Festivals were bought by the British Council and exhibited with Homer SykesOnce a Year and Patrick Ward‘s Wish You Were Here; Steele-Perkins’ depiction of Notting Hill has been described as being in the vein of Tony Ray-Jones.[6]

Steele-Perkins became an associate of the French agency Viva in 1976, and three years after this, he published his first book, The Teds, an examination of teddy boys that is now considered a classic of documentary and even fashion photography.[7] He curated photographs for the Arts Council collection, and co-edited a collection of these, About 70 Photographs.

In 1977 Steele-Perkins made a short detour into “conceptual” photography, working with the photographer Mark Edwards to collect images from the ends of rolls of films taken by others, exposures taken in a rush merely in order to finish the roll. Forty were exhibited in “Film Ends”.[8]

Work documenting poverty in Britain took Steele-Perkins to Belfast, which he found to be poorer than Glasgow, London, Middlesbrough, or Newcastle, as well as experiencing “a low-intensity war”.[9] He stayed in the Catholic Lower Falls area, first squatting and then staying in the flat of a man he met in Belfast. His photographs of Northern Ireland appeared in a 1981 book written by Wieland Giebel. Thirty years later, he would return to the area to find that its residents had new problems and fears; the later photographs appear within Magnum Ireland.[9]

Steele-Perkins photographed wars and disasters in the third world, leaving Viva in 1979 to join Magnum Photos as a nominee (on encouragement by Josef Koudelka), and becoming an associate member in 1981 and a full member in 1983.[10] He continued to work in Britain, taking photographs published as The Pleasure Principle, an examination (in colour) of life in Britain but also a reflection of himself. With Philip Marlow, he successfully pushed for the opening of a London office for Magnum; the proposal was approved in 1986.[11]

Steele-Perkins made four trips to Afghanistan in the 1990s, sometimes staying with the Taliban, the majority of whom “were just ordinary guys” who treated him courteously.[12] Together with James Nachtwey and others, he was also fired on, prompting him to reconsider his priorities: in addition to the danger of the front line:

. . . you never get good pictures out of it. I’ve yet to see a decent front-line war picture. All the strong stuff is a bit further back, where the emotions are.[13]

A book of his black and white images, Afghanistan, was published first in French, and later in English and in Japanese. The review in the Spectator read in part:

These astonishingly beautiful photographs are more moving than can be described; they hardly ever dwell on physical brutalities, but on the bleak rubble and desert of the country, punctuated by inexplicable moments of formal beauty, even pastoral bliss . . . the grandeur of the images comes from Steele-Perkins never neglecting the human, the individual face in the great crowd of history.

The book and the travelling exhibition of photographs were also reviewed favorably in the Guardian, Observer, Library Journal, and London Evening Standard.[15]

Steele-Perkins served as the President of Magnum from 1995 to 1998.[16] One of the annual meetings over which he presided was that of 1996, to which Russell Miller was given unprecedented access as an outsider and which Miller has described in some detail.[17]

With his second wife the presenter and writer Miyako Yamada (山田美也子), whom he married in 1999,[18] Steele-Perkins has spent much time in Japan, publishing two books of photographs: Fuji, a collection of views and glimpses of the mountain inspired by Hokusai‘s Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji; and Tokyo Love Hello, scenes of life in the city. Between these two books he also published a personal visual diary of the year 2001, Echoes.

Work in South Korea included a contribution to a Hayward Gallery touring exhibition of photographs of contemporary slavery, “Documenting Disposable People”, in which Steele-Perkins interviewed and made black-and-white photographs of Korean “comfort women“. “Their eyes were really important to me: I wanted them to look at you, and for you to look at them”, he wrote. “They’re not going to be around that much longer, and it was important to give this show a history.”[19] The photographs were published within Documenting Disposable People: Contemporary Global Slavery.[n 1]

Steele-Perkins returned to England for a project by the Side Gallery on Durham’s closed coalfields (exhibited within “Coalfield Stories”[20]); after this work ended, he stayed on to work on a depiction (in black and white) of life in the north-east of England, published as Northern Exposures.[21]

In 2008 Steele-Perkins won an Arts Council England grant for “Carers: The Hidden Face of Britain”, a project to interview those caring for their relatives at home, and to photograph the relationships.[22] Some of this work has appeared in The Guardian,[23] and also in his book England, My England, a compilation of four decades of his photography that combines photographs taken for publication with much more personal work: he does not see himself as having a separate personality when at home.[24] “By turns gritty and evocative,” wrote a reviewer in The Guardian, “it is a book one imagines that Orwell would have liked very much.”[25]

Steele-Perkins has two sons, Cedric, born 16 November 1990, and Cameron, born 18 June 1992. With his marriage to Miyako Yamada he has a stepson, Daisuke and a granddaughter, Momoe.

Publications

Books by Chris Steele-Perkins, whether alone or in collaboration (flanked by irrelevant Pelicans); this copy of The Teds is the 2003 edition.

Photobooks by Steele-Perkins

  • The Teds. London: Travelling Light/Exit, 1979. ISBN 0-906333-05-9. With text by Richard Smith.
  • The Pleasure Principle. Manchester: Cornerhouse Books, 1989. ISBN 0-948797-50-9.
  • Afghanistan. London: Westzone Publishing, 2000. ISBN 1-903391-13-X.[n 2]
    • Afghanistan. Paris: Marval, 2000. ISBN 2862342971. (in French)
    • Afuganisutan: Shashinshū (アフガニスタン 写真集) / Afghanistan. Tokyo: Shōbunsha, 2001. ISBN 4794965168. (in Japanese)
  • Fuji: Images of Contemporary Japan. New York: Umbrage; London: Turnaround, 2002. ISBN 1-884167-12-8.
  • Echoes. London: Trolley, 2003. ISBN 1-904563-11-2.
  • Tokyo Love Hello. Paris: Editions Intervalles, 2006. ISBN 2916355057. Photographs taken in Tokyo, 1997–2006. With an introduction by Donald Richie, texts and captions in French and English.
  • Northern Exposures: Rural Life in the North East. Newcastle upon Tyne: Northumbria University Press, 2007. ISBN 1-904794-20-3. Black and white photographs taken from 2002 and after.
  • England, My England: A Photographer’s Portrait. Newcastle upon Tyne: Northumbria Press, 2009. ISBN 1-904794-38-6. Photographs 1969–2009, combining the documentary and the personal.[26]
  • Fading Light: Portraits of Centenarians. Alnwick: McNidder & Grace, 2012. ISBN 978-0-85716-032-4.[27]
  • A Place in the Country. Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2014. ISBN 978-1-907893-62-9.

Other book contributions

  • Young British Photographers. London: Co-optic Photography, [1975]. Photographs by John Wall, Valerie Wilmer, Brian Griffin, Paddy Summerfield, Larry Herman, Homer Sykes, John Webb, Neil Gulliver, Richard Wood, Simon Marsden, Mark Edwards, and Paul Hill. Co-edited with Mark Edwards.
  • About 70 Photographs. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1980. ISBN 0-7287-0208-8 (paperback); ISBN 0-7287-0209-6 (hardback). Steele-Perkins and William Messer comment on about seventy photographs by other photographers.
  • La Grèce au présent, ed. Luce M. Albiges. Paris: Bibliothèque Publique d’Information, Centre Georges Pompidou, 1981. (in French) Exhibition catalogue, works by various photographers.
  • Das kurze Leben des Brian Stewart: Alltag im irischen Bürgerkrieg. West Berlin: Elefanten Press, 1981. ISBN 3-88520-051-1. Text by Wieland Giebel. Steele-Perkins contributes 18 photographs.
  • El Salvador: Work of Thirty Photographers, ed. Carolyn Forché et al. New York: Writers & Readers, 1982. ISBN 0-86316-064-6 (paperback); ISBN 0-86316-063-8.
  • Survival Programmes: in Britain’s Inner Cities (with Nicholas Battye and Paul Trevor, as the Exit Photography Group). Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1982. ISBN 0-335-10111-9.
  • Beirut: Frontline Story. London: Pluto Press; Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 1983. ISBN 0-86104-397-9. Text by Selim Nassib and Caroline Tisdall, photographs by Steele-Perkins.
  • The Indelible Image: Photographs of War, 1846 to the Present, ed. Frances Fralin. New York: Abrams, 1985. ISBN 0-8109-1110-8. Catalogue of the exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery.
  • In Our Time: The World as Seen by Magnum Photographers. New York: Norton, 1989. ISBN 0-393-02767-8. London: André Deutsch, 1993. ISBN 0-233-98822-X. Text by William Manchester et al.
  • Way to Gods: Magunamu Foto: Kumano kodō, Santiago e no michi (WAY to GODS マグナム フォト 熊野古道 サンティアゴへの道), ed. Nagasaka Yoshimitsu (永坂嘉光). Tokyo: Kawade Kobō Shinsha, 1999. ISBN 4-309-90293-6(in Japanese) (Additional title on front cover: Ancient Kumano Roads and Roads to Santiago.) Contains photographs by Steele-Perkins of Kumano kodō (pp. 103–120); as well as photographs of Kumano kodō by Elliott Erwitt and Peter Marlow, and of camino de Santiago by Marlow and Harry Gruyaert.
  • Magnum°. London: Phaidon, 2000. ISBN 0-7148-9065-0. (Also called Magnum Degrees.) Steele-Perkins edited this collection of work by Magnum photographers during the last decade or so of the twentieth century. His own photographs of Tiananmen Square, the effects of war in Somalia, Uganda and Afghanistan, and the work of Abdul Sattar Edhi are included.
  • Arms against Fury: Magnum Photographers in Afghanistan, ed. Robert Dannin. New York: PowerHouse, 2002. ISBN 1-57687-151-7; London: Thames & Hudson, 2002. ISBN 0-500-54263-5.
  • Magnum Football (distributed in the US as Magnum Soccer). London: Phaidon, 2002. ISBN 0-7148-4236-2. London: Phaidon, 2005. ISBN 0-7148-4521-3. With other Magnum photographers. Contains eight photographs by Steele-Perkins.
  • The Face of Human Rights, ed. Walter Kälin et al. Baden, Switzerland: Lars Müller, 2004. ISBN 3-03778-017-7. Steele-Perkins contributes ten or more photographs.
  • Magnum Stories, ed. Chris Boot. London: Phaidon, 2004. ISBN 0714842451. Steele-Perkins’ story on famine in Somalia in August 1992 appears with an introduction by him on pp. 442–49.
  • Magnum Ireland, ed. Brigitte Lardinois and Val Williams. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2005. ISBN 0-500-54303-8. With other Magnum photographers. Steele-Perkins’ 1978 photographs of West Belfast are on pp. 116–23; his photographs of the Milltown massacre (West Belfast, 1988) are on pp. 160–63.
  • Euro visions: Chypre, Estonie, Hongrie, Lettonie, Lituanie, Malte, Pologne, République Tchèque, Slovaquie, Slovenie par dix photographes de Magnum. Paris: Magnum, 2005. ISBN 2-84426-293-7.
    • Magnum Photos: Euro Visions, the New Europeans by Ten Magnum Photographers. Göttingen: Steidl, 2006. ISBN 3-86521-223-9. English translation. Steele-Perkins’ photographs of Slovakia appear on pp. 152–61, with one page for each of ten themes; an interview with him precedes the photographs.[n 3]
  • United Opus, ed. Justyn Barnes. London: Kraken Opus, 2006. ISBN 1-905794-03-7, ISBN 1-905794-00-2. With other photographers and writers. A book about Manchester United F.C.[28]
  • How We Are: Photographing Britain from the 1840s to the Present, ed. Val Williams and Susan Bright. London: Tate Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-1-85437-714-2.
  • Magunamu ga totta Tōkyō (マグナムが撮った東京) / Tokyo Seen by Magnum Photographers. Tokyo: Magnum Photos Tokyo, 2007. Pl 97 is a montage by Steele-Perkins.
  • Magnum Magnum: with 413 photographs in colour and duotone, ed. Brigitte Lardinois. London: Thames & Hudson, 2007. ISBN 978-0-500-54342-9. London: Thames & Hudson, 2008. ISBN 0-500-54366-6. (in English) Pp. 144–49  is a selection of Steele-Perkins’ photographs by Bruno Barbey; elsewhere, Steele-Perkins presents his selection of photographs by Alex Webb.
  • Ces images qui nous racontent le monde, ed. Éric Godeau. Paris: Albin Michel, 2007. ISBN 2-226-15219-9(in French) With other Magnum photographers.
  • Documenting Disposable People: Contemporary Global Slavery. London: Hayward Publishing, 2008. ISBN 978-1-85332-264-8. The book of the exhibition.
  • Korea: As Seen by Magnum Photographers. New York: Norton, 2009. ISBN 978-0-393-06774-3. Steele-Perkins was one of twenty photographers who combined to photograph South Korea from 2006 to 2007.
  • Darfur: Twenty Years of War and Genocide in Sudan, ed. Leora Kahn. New York: PowerHouse, 2007. ISBN 1-57687-385-4 (hard). New York: PowerHouse, 2008. ISBN 1-57687-415-X (paper). Photographs taken by Steele-Perkins in 1991 and by seven others.

CD-ROMs

  • Za Wākusu (ザ・ワークス) / The Works. Tokyo: Media Towns, 1999. 180 photographs by Steele-Perkins, from 1980 to 1994, of Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaire and Zimbabwe.

Archives

Films

  • Video Diaries: Dying for Publicity. 1993, 70 minutes. Steele-Perkins reflects on his reporting of and role in scenes of suffering.[29]

Exhibitions

Solo

Group or shared

As co-curator

  • “Young British Photographers”. Photographers’ Gallery (London), 1975. (Co-curator, with Mark Edwards.)[84]
  • “Film Ends”. Travelling in Britain, 1977. (Co-selector, with Mark Edwards.)[8]

Collections

Awards

Notes

  • For bibliographic detail see the list of publications. Samples can be seen in Chris Steele-Perkins, “Comfort Women“, The Drawbridge, no. 13 (Summer 2009). Accessed 2010-01-13.
  • Afghanistan“, New Yorker, 1 October 2001. Accessed 2009-03-15.
  1. For comments on Steele-Perkins’ work, see John Petrenko, “Chris Steele-Perkins“, John Petrenko Photography and Art Blog, 2 November 2009. Accessed 2010-01-21.

References

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