Biography
Born in Burma City in Burma in 1947, Chris Steele-Perkins lives and works in London. Son of a British serviceman and a Burmese mother he joins England with his father at the age of two. He obtains a degree in psychology with honors at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where he studies from 1967 to 1970. In 1971, he is back in London and starts to work as an independent photographer specialized in the theater. His first abroad project goes back to 1973 : he is given a mission by several humanitarian organizations to realize a photo report on the situation in Bangladesh.
Works
His subjects of predilection concern urban poverty and minorities. For proof his involvement in 1975 in the collective EXIT, a group of documentarians who consecrate themselves to the study of social problems in British towns. A part of the work that he realizes with this collective is published seven years later under the title Survival Programmes. In 1976 he collaborates with the Parisian photographic agency Viva. It is in 1979 that he joins the agency Magnum of which he becomes the president from 1997 to 1999. He then works essentially in developing countries, notably covering several conflicts in the Middle East, in Africa and in Central America.
Photos de Chris Steele-Perkins
Cricket
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Sports.
Concours et récompenses
His photo reports encounter a great public success and win several awards, one of which, the prestigious Oskar Barnack Award in 1988 and the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award in 1989.