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

Life and career

Steele-Perkins was born in

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, 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. He grew up in Burnham-on-Sea. He went to Christ's Hospital and for one year studied chemistry at the

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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;William Manchester et al., ''In Our Time: The World as Seen by Magnum Photographers'' (New York: Norton, 1989; ), p. 453. 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. 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'' 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."Tales of Survival"
''British Journal of Photography'', 10 January 2007. Retrieved 23 March 2009. 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 Sykes' ''Once 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. Steele-Perkins became an associate of the French agency

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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.Documentary
Page about ''The Teds''
Magnum Photos. Retrieved 23 March 2009. Fashion: Max Décharné,
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, ''The Guardian'', 22 November 2005. Retrieved 15 March 2009. He curated photographs for the Arts Council collection, and co-edited a collection of these, ''About 70 Photographs''. In 1977, he made a brief detour into "conceptual" photography, working with the photographer Mark Edwards to collect images from the ends of rolls of

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taken by themselves and others. (These were exposures taken immediately after loading a fresh film and without focusing or aiming, in order to wind along the fogged film leader and ensure that the film in position for the first wanted exposure was unfogged.) Forty were exhibited in "Film Ends".Profile in ''Contemporary Authors'' vol. 211. 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"."War and Peace: Life in Belfast after the Troubles"
''Times'' (London), 12 July 2008. Retrieved 12 March 2010. Of his experiences in Northern Ireland, he was quoted as saying: ''"I intended to cover the situation from the standpoint of the underdog, the downtrodden: I was not neutral and was not interested in capturing it so… I began to see that my work in Northern Ireland had always been a celebration of the resilience and unyielding way that the Catholic community resisted."'' He stayed in the Catholic Lower Falls area, first

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and then living 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 returned to the area to find that its residents had new problems and fears; the later photographs appear within ''Magnum Ireland''. Both the earlier and the later photographs are collected in '' The Troubles'' (2021). 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. 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 Peter Marlow, he successfully pushed for the opening of a London office for Magnum; the proposal was approved in 1986. 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. 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.

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 ''

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'' read in part: The book and the travelling exhibition of photographs were also reviewed favorably in the ''

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, Library Journal,'' and London ''

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.'' Steele-Perkins served as the President of Magnum from 1995 to 1998. One of the annual meetings over which he presided was that of 1996, to which

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was given unprecedented access as an outsider and which Miller has described in some detail. With his second wife the

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and writer Miyako Yamada (), whom he married in 1999, 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

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'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

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included a contribution to a

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touring exhibition of photographs of contemporary slavery, "Documenting Disposable People", in which Steele-Perkins interviewed and made black-and-white photographs of Korean "

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". "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." The photographs were published within ''Documenting Disposable People: Contemporary Global Slavery.''For bibliographic detail see the list of publications. Samples can be seen in Chris Steele-Perkins,
Comfort Women
, ''The Drawbridge'', no. 13 (Summer 2009). Retrieved 13 January 2010. Steele-Perkins returned to England for a project by the

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on Durham's closed coalfields (exhibited within "Coalfield Stories"); 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.'' 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. Some of this work has appeared in ''The Guardian,'' 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. "By turns gritty and evocative," wrote a reviewer in ''The Guardian,'' "it is a book one imagines that Orwell would have liked very much." 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

Photobooks by Steele-Perkins

* ''The Teds''. London: Travelling Light/Exit, 1979; . With text by Richard Smith. ** New edition. Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2003; . **Revised larger format edition. Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2018; * ''The Pleasure Principle''. Manchester: Cornerhouse Books, 1989; * ''Afghanistan''. London: Westzone Publishing, 2000; "Afghanistan"
''The New Yorker'', 1 October 2001. Retrieved 15 March 2009. ** ''Afghanistan''. Paris: Marval, 2000; ** ''Afuganisutan: Shashinshū'' () / ''Afghanistan''. Tokyo: Shōbunsha, 2001; * ''Fuji: Images of Contemporary Japan''. New York: Umbrage; London: Turnaround, 2002; * ''Echoes.'' London: Trolley, 2003; * ''Tokyo Love Hello''. Paris: Editions Intervalles, 2006; Photographs taken in Tokyo, 1997–2006. With an introduction by

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, texts and captions in French and English. * ''Northern Exposures: Rural Life in the North East.'' Newcastle upon Tyne: Northumbria University Press, 2007; . Black and white photographs taken from 2002 and after. * ''England, My England: A Photographer's Portrait''. Newcastle upon Tyne: Northumbria Press, 2009; . Photographs 1969–2009, combining the documentary and the personal. * ''Fading Light: Portraits of Centenarians''. Alnwick: McNidder & Grace, 2012;. * ''A Place in the Country''. Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2014; Dewi Lewis's page about ''A Place in the Country'' i
here
* ''The New Londoners.'' Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2019; Website
about the book and related exhibitions. Dewi Lewis's page about ''The New Londoners'' i
here
* ''The Troubles''. iverpool Bluecoat Press, 2021. With an essay by Paul McCorry; Bluecoat Press's page about ''The Troubles'' i
here

Zines by Steele-Perkins

*''Wolverhampton 1978.'' Southport: Café Royal Books, 2019. With an introduction by Francis Hodgson. Edition of 500.Café Royal Books' page about ''Wolverhampton 1978'' i
here
*''Brixton 1973–1975.'' Southport: Café Royal Books, 2019. With an introduction by Francis Hodgson. Edition of 250.Café Royal Books' page about ''Brixton 1973–1975'' i
here

Other book contributions

CD-ROMs

*''Za Wākusu'' () / ''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.

Films

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

Exhibitions

Solo

*"The Face of Bengal". Camerawork Gallery ( London), 1974.Chris Steele-Perkins
, author page at Northumbria University website. Retrieved 16 March 2009. *"The Teds". Camerawork Gallery (London), 1979. *"Beirut". Camerawork Gallery (London), 1983. *"Famine in Africa".

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(London), 1985. *"Lebanon". Magnum Gallery (

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), 1985. *"South Africa".

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(Paris), 1986. *"The Pleasure Principle". Fnac (Paris), 1990. *Photographs of Britain.

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), May 1991. *"Africa, Work in Progress". Visa pour l'image (

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), 1992. *"Nomansland". Photo Gallery International (

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), August–September 1999. *"Afghanistan". Visa pour l'image (Perpignan), 1999. *"Notes from Afghanistan".

( Newcastle), September–October 2000.

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), August (?) – September 2000. *"Fuji".

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), January–March 2002. *"Photographs of Mt Fuji".

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( Aberystwyth), May–June 2002. *"Fuji".

Impressions Gallery Impressions Gallery is an independent contemporary photography gallery in Bradford, England. It was established in 1972 and located in York until moving to Bradford in 2007. Impressions Gallery also runs a photography bookshop, publishes its own ...

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), August–September 2002. *"Fuji". Granship (

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), May–June 2002. *"The Teds". Gallery 292 (

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), March 2003. *"The Teds: From the Originals to the Plastics". Stephen Daiter Gallery (

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), January–February 2004. *"Echoes". Leica Gallery Tokyo (

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, Tokyo), August–September 2005. *"Hinterland". Side Gallery (Newcastle), April–May 2006. *"Haswell Plough to Harajuku". Host Gallery (London), June–July 2007. *"Northern Exposures". Northumbria University Gallery, 2007. *"Fuji". Porta Praetoria (

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), as part of the Mountain Photo Festival, August–September 2008. *"England My England".

Kings Place Gallery Kings Place is a building in London’s Kings Cross area, providing music and visual arts venues combined with seven floors of office space. It has housed the editorial offices of ''The Guardian'' newspaper since December 2008 and is the for ...

(London), June–July 2010. *"For Love of the Game".

Third Floor Gallery Third Floor Gallery was an independent charitable photography gallery in Cardiff Bay, Wales. It opened in 2010 and predominantly featured documentary photography, often premiering new work with the direct involvement of the photographers. It clo ...

(Cardiff), June–July 2010. Photographs of football in Japan, England, and Ghana. *"Northern Exposures". Galleries Inc at Central Square North (Newcastle), January–February 2011. *"The Pleasure Principle". Open Eye Gallery (Liverpool), November–December 2011. *"Centenarians". University Gallery, Northumbria University (Newcastle), October–November 2012.

Group or shared

*"The Inquisitive Eye".

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( London), 1974. *"Il Regno Unito si diverte". British Council,

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, 1981. (With Homer Sykes and Patrick Ward.) *"Maritime England".

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(London), 1982. *"The Other Britain". National Theatre (London), and touring in Britain, 1982.The Other Britain Revisited: Photographs from New Society
, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2010. Retrieved 2 May 2010. *"El Salvador: Work of Thirty Photographers".

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), 1984. *"The Indelible Image".

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(Washington, D.C.), 1985. *"In Our Time". A Magnum Photos exhibition. World tour, 1990. *"A Terrible Beauty".

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(New York), 1994. *"Our Turning World".

(London), December 1999 – March 2000. With other Magnum photographers. *"Magnum Style". Staley-Wise Gallery (New York), April–June 2004. ("Style is evident in body language, original dress, and physical beauty"; with other Magnum photographers.) *"Acqua fonte di vita". Fondazione Luciana Matalon (Milan), May–June 2004. (With ten other photographers.) An exhibition showing the importance of water. *"Magnum Football". Millennium Point (

), May–August 2004. (With other Magnum photographers.) And (also as "Planet Football", "Weltsprach Fußball", "Världsspråket fotboll" and "Fotbollens språk") at many other places around the world until 2008.List of exhibitions by Chris Steele-Perkins
photography-now.com. Retrieved 29 March 2009. *"Magnum Stories". The Guardian Newsroom (London), November–December 2004. With many other Magnum photographers; an exhibition to coincide with publication of the book ''Magnum Stories.'' *Exhibition of new acquisitions, Galleria Fnac Milano (Milan), May–June 2005. *"NorthSouthEastWest: A 360° View of Climate Change". (With nine other Magnum photographers.)

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( London), March 2005; and many cities worldwide until 2006. *"Teenage Kicks: The Mods 'n' Rockers Generation". Photographers' Gallery (London), 2005–2007. *"Euro Visions: The New Europeans as Seen by Magnum Photographers".

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), September–October 2005. Steele-Perkins presented photographs of Slovakia.

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), October–November 2006. *"El Salvador: Work of Thirty Photographers". ICP (New York), September–November 2005. The exhibition of 1984. *"Euro Visions: The New Europeans by Twelve Magnum Photographers".

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), March–July 2007. The earlier exhibition augmented by photographs (by

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) of Bulgaria and Romania. *"The Coast Exposed".

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, London), and smaller versions elsewhere in the UK. *"I Shot Norman Foster". The Yard (

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.I Shot Norman Foster
", the Architecture Foundation exhibition notice. Retrieved 26 March 2009. Steele-Perkins photographed the London Gherkin, "hiding it within the chaos of the City's streets, in similar fashion to his Mount Fuji series". *"After Image: Social Documentary Photography in the 20th century".

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), November 2006 – April 2007. A number of photographers, from the 1870s to the 1980s.After Image: Social Documentary Photography in the 20th century
", NGV News, 11 October 2006. Retrieved 2009-03-28. *"Survival Programmes: In Britain's Inner Cities Between 1974 and 1979". (With Nicholas Battye and Paul Trevor.)

( Newcastle), January–March 2007. *"Tokyo Seen by Magnum Photographers".

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, Tokyo), March–May 2007. *"To the Dogs". Presentation House Gallery (

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), June–August 2007. *"No Such Thing as Society: Photography in Britain 1968–1987."

, March 2008;

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), May 2008; Ujazdów Castle (Warsaw), November 2008. *"Darfur: Photojournalists Respond." With

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Ron Haviv Ron Haviv (born 1965) is an American photojournalist who covers conflicts. He is the author of several photographic publications, is a co-founder of VII Photo Agency, lectures at universities and conducts workshops. Biography Ron Haviv was a stu ...

Olivier Jobard Olivier is the French form of the given name Oliver. It may refer to: * Olivier (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Olivier (surname), a list of people * Château Olivier, a Bordeaux winery * Olivier, Louisiana, a rural p ...

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, and

Sven Torfinn Sven (in Danish and Norwegian, also Svend and also in Norwegian most commonly Svein) is a Scandinavian first name which is also used in the Low Countries and German-speaking countries. The name itself is Old Norse for "young man" or "young ...

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, March–August 2008. JFK High School ( Plainview, New York),

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(

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), Idaho Historical Museum (

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(

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(Durham), Barness Family Jewish Community Center (

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, Arizona), 2008–10. *"Bitter Fruit: Pictures from Afghanistan". (With other Magnum photographers.) Magnum Print Room (London), 2009. *"Disposable People: Contemporary Global Slavery". (With seven other Magnum photographers.)

Southbank Centre Southbank Centre is a complex of artistic venues in London, England, on the South Bank of the River Thames (between Hungerford Bridge and Waterloo Bridge). It comprises three main performance venues (the Royal Festival Hall including the Nati ...

(London), and five other locations in England and Wales, 2009–2010. Steele-Perkins shows portraits of Korean "

". *"The Other Britain Revisited: Photographs from ''New Society''".

Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and ...

(London), May–September 2010. *"Facts of Life / British Documentary Photography". Photomonth,

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, August–November 2010. British photography 1974–1997. *"Mass Photography: Blackpool through the Camera",

Grundy Art Gallery The Grundy is an art gallery located in Blackpool, Lancashire, England. Its eclectic programme consists of regional historic to recent contemporary art exhibitions. Opened in 1911, it is owned and operated by Blackpool Council. It is a Grade II ...

(Blackpool), 2011. *"''Dokyumentarī Fuji''" () / "Documentary Fuji", Shizuoka City Tokaido Hiroshige Museum of Art (

), July–September 2013. An exhibition of photographs by Steele-Perkins and prints by

Hiroshige Utagawa Hiroshige (, also ; ja, 歌川広重 ), born Andō Tokutarō (; 1797 – 12 October 1858), was a Japanese ''ukiyo-e'' artist, considered the last great master of that tradition. Hiroshige is best known for his horizontal-format l ...

As co-curator

*"Young British Photographers".

(London), 1975. (Co-curator, with Mark Edwards.) *"Film Ends". Travelling in Britain, 1977. (Co-selector, with Mark Edwards.)

Collections

Arts Council of Great Britain The Arts Council of Great Britain was a non-departmental public body dedicated to the promotion of the fine arts in Great Britain. It was divided in 1994 to form the Arts Council of England (now Arts Council England), the Scottish Arts Council ...

(London) *

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(London)Survival Programmes: Exit Photography Group
(reference code GB 0097 SURVIVAL) at

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. Retrieved 17 March 2009. *

(London) *

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(London and elsewhere) *

(Newcastle) *

National Media Museum The National Science and Media Museum (formerly The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, 1983–2006 and then the National Media Museum, 2006–2017), located in Bradford, West Yorkshire, is part of the national Science Museum ...

(Bradford) * National Portrait Gallery (London) *

Irish Museum of Modern Art The Irish Museum of Modern Art ( ga, Áras Nua-Ealaíne na hÉireann) also known as IMMA, is Ireland's leading national institution for the collection and presentation of Modern art, modern and contemporary art. Located in Kilmainham, Dublin, t ...

(Dublin)Biography
for the 2009

Prix Pictet The Prix Pictet (Pictet prize) is an international award in photography. It was founded in 2008 by the Geneva-based Pictet Group with the mandate to use the power of photography to communicate messages about sustainability to a global audience. Its ...

shortlist. Retrieved 6 January 2010. *

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(Paris) *

Tokyo Fuji Art Museum was established by Daisaku Ikeda and opened near the Sōka University campus in Hachiōji, Tokyo, Japan, in 1983. The new wing was added in 2008. The collection of some thirty thousand works spans the arts and cultures of Japan, Asia, and Europ ...

(Hachiōji, Tokyo) *

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(Melbourne) *

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(Washington, DC)

Awards

* 1988:

Oskar Barnack Award The Leica Oskar Barnack Award, presented almost continuously since 1979, recognizes photography expressing the relationship between man and the environment. It was known as the Oskar Barnack Award when presented by World Press Photo between 1979 an ...

(

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and

World Press Photo World Press Photo Foundation is an independent, non-profit organization based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Founded in 1955, the organization is known for holding an annual press photography contest. Since 2011, World Press Photo has organized a ...

), for a story on

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victims * 1988:

Tom Hopkinson Prize Tom or TOM may refer to: * Tom (given name), a diminutive of Thomas or Tomás or an independent Aramaic given name (and a list of people with the name) Characters * Tom Anderson, a character in ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' * Tom Beck, a character ...

for British Photojournalism (

)The Coast Exposed: Photographers
". National Maritime Museum. Retrieved 15 March 2009. * 1989:

Robert Capa Gold Medal The Robert Capa Gold Medal is an award for "best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise". It is awarded annually by the Overseas Press Club of America (OPC). It was created in honor of the war phot ...

(

International Center of Photography The International Center of Photography (ICP), at 79 Essex Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, consists of a museum for photography and visual culture and a school offering an array of educational courses and programming. ...

) * 2000:

award, "Daily Life" categoryBiography of Steele-Perkins
at Amber Online. Retrieved 28 March 2009. * 2008:

Terence Donovan Award Publius Terentius Afer (; – ), better known in English as Terence (), was a Roman African playwright during the Roman Republic. His comedies were performed for the first time around 166–160 BC. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought ...

(

Royal Photographic Society The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, commonly known as the Royal Photographic Society (RPS), is one of the world's oldest photographic societies. It was founded in London, England, in 1853 as the Photographic Society of London with ...

) * 2009: Shortlisted for the

for ''Mount Fuji''Chris Steele-Perkins: Mount Fuji
, Prix Pictet. Retrieved 1 June 2014. * 2014: Honorary Fellowship of

The Royal Photographic Society The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, commonly known as the Royal Photographic Society (RPS), is one of the world's oldest photographic societies. It was founded in London, England, in 1853 as the Photographic Society of London with ...

Notes

References

External links

Chris Steele-Perkins
his own website.
Chris Steele-Perkins
at Magnum Photos. {{DEFAULTSORT:Steele-Perkins, Chris 1947 births Living people People from Yangon People from Burnham-on-Sea Photographers from Somerset English photojournalists Magnum photographers Photography in Afghanistan Photography in Japan Photography in Lebanon People educated at Christ's Hospital Anglo-Burmese people English people of Burmese descent Alumni of Newcastle University Alumni of the University of York