Chris Steele-Perkins Explained

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 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.

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 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.^[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, he made a brief detour into "conceptual" photography, working with the photographer Mark Edwards to collect images from the ends of rolls of 35mm film 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".^[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]

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."^[10]

He stayed in the Catholic Lower Falls area, first squatting 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.^[9] 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.^[11] 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.^[12]

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.^[13] 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.^[14]

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:

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, 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.^[20]

Steele-Perkins returned to England for a project by the Side Gallery on Durham's closed coalfields (exhibited within "Coalfield Stories"^[21]); 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.^[22]

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.^[23] Some of this work has appeared in The Guardian,^[24] 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.^[25] "By turns gritty and evocative," wrote a reviewer in The Guardian, "it is a book one imagines that Orwell would have liked very much."^[26]

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; ^[27]
  • 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 Donald Richie, 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.^[28]
  • England, My England: A Magnum Photographer's Portrait. Carmarthen: McNidder & Grace, 2023; . Reworked, paperback edition, with an introduction by David Elliott.^{[29] [30]}
• Fading Light: Portraits of Centenarians. Alnwick: McNidder & Grace, 2012; .^[31]
• A Place in the Country. Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2014; ^[32]
• The New Londoners. Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2019; ^[33]
• The Troubles. [Liverpool]: Bluecoat Press, 2021. With an essay by Paul McCorry; ^[34]

Zines by Steele-Perkins

• Wolverhampton 1978. Southport: Café Royal Books, 2019. With an introduction by Francis Hodgson. Edition of 500.^[35]
• Brixton 1973–1975. Southport: Café Royal Books, 2019. With an introduction by Francis Hodgson. Edition of 250.^[36]

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.

Archives

• Catalogue of the Survival Programmes papers held at LSE Archives

Films

• Video Diaries: Dying for Publicity. 1993, 70 minutes. Steele-Perkins reflects on his reporting of and role in scenes of suffering.^[37]

Exhibitions

Solo

• "The Face of Bengal". Camerawork Gallery (London), 1974.^[38]
• "The Teds". Camerawork Gallery (London), 1979.
• "Beirut". Camerawork Gallery (London), 1983.
• "Famine in Africa". Barbican Art Gallery (London), 1985.
• "Lebanon". Magnum Gallery (Paris), 1985.
• "South Africa". Fnac (Paris), 1986.
• "The Pleasure Principle". Fnac (Paris), 1990.
• Photographs of Britain. Aperture Foundation (New York), May 1991.^[39]
• "Africa, Work in Progress". Visa pour l'image (Perpignan), 1992.^[40]
• "Nomansland". Photo Gallery International (Tokyo), August - September 1999.^[41]
• "Afghanistan". Visa pour l'image (Perpignan), 1999.^[42]
• "Notes from Afghanistan". Side Gallery (Newcastle), September - October 2000.^[43] Ffotogallery (Cardiff), August (?)  - September 2000.^[44]
• "Fuji". Midlands Arts Centre (Birmingham), January - March 2002.^[45]
• "Photographs of Mt Fuji". Aberystwyth Arts Centre (Aberystwyth), May - June 2002.^[46]
• "Fuji". Impressions Gallery (York), August - September 2002.^[47]
• "Fuji". Granship (Shizuoka City), May - June 2002.^[48]
• "The Teds". Gallery 292 (New York City), March 2003.^[49]
• "The Teds: From the Originals to the Plastics". Stephen Daiter Gallery (Chicago), January - February 2004.^[50]
• "Echoes". Leica Gallery Tokyo (Ginza, Tokyo), August - September 2005.^[51]
• "Hinterland". Side Gallery (Newcastle), April - May 2006.^[52]
• "Haswell Plough to Harajuku". Host Gallery (London), June - July 2007.^[53]
• "Northern Exposures". Northumbria University Gallery, 2007.^[54]
• "Fuji". Porta Praetoria (Aosta), as part of the Mountain Photo Festival, August - September 2008.^[55]
• "England My England". Kings Place Gallery (London), June - July 2010.^[56]
• "For Love of the Game". Third Floor Gallery (Cardiff), June - July 2010. Photographs of football in Japan, England, and Ghana.^[57]
• "Northern Exposures". Galleries Inc at Central Square North (Newcastle), January - February 2011.^[58]
• "The Pleasure Principle". Open Eye Gallery (Liverpool), November - December 2011.^[59]
• "Centenarians". University Gallery, Northumbria University (Newcastle), October - November 2012.^[60]

Group or shared

• "The Inquisitive Eye". ICA (London), 1974.
• "Il Regno Unito si diverte". British Council, Milan, 1981. (With Homer Sykes and Patrick Ward.)^[61]
• "Maritime England". Photographers' Gallery (London), 1982.
• "The Other Britain". National Theatre (London), and touring in Britain, 1982.^[62]
• "El Salvador: Work of Thirty Photographers". ICP (New York), 1984.^[63]
• "The Indelible Image". Corcoran Gallery (Washington, D.C.), 1985.
• "In Our Time". A Magnum Photos exhibition. World tour, 1990.
• "A Terrible Beauty". Artists Space (New York), 1994.
• "Our Turning World". Barbican Art Gallery (London), December 1999  - March 2000. With other Magnum photographers.^[64]
• "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.)^[65]
• "Acqua fonte di vita". Fondazione Luciana Matalon (Milan), May - June 2004. (With ten other photographers.) An exhibition showing the importance of water.^[66]
• "Magnum Football". Millennium Point (Birmingham), May - August 2004. (With other Magnum photographers.)^[67] And (also as "Planet Football", "Weltsprach Fußball", "Världsspråket fotboll" and "Fotbollens språk") at many other places around the world until 2008.^[68]
• "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.^[69]
• Exhibition of new acquisitions, Galleria Fnac Milano (Milan), May - June 2005.^[70]
• "NorthSouthEastWest: A 360° View of Climate Change". (With nine other Magnum photographers.) Science Museum (London), March 2005; and many cities worldwide until 2006.^[71]
• "Teenage Kicks: The Mods 'n' Rockers Generation". Photographers' Gallery (London), 2005 - 2007.^[72]
• "Euro Visions: The New Europeans as Seen by Magnum Photographers". Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), September - October 2005. Steele-Perkins presented photographs of Slovakia.^[73] Ujazdów Castle (Warsaw), October - November 2006.^[74]
• "El Salvador: Work of Thirty Photographers". ICP (New York), September - November 2005. The exhibition of 1984.^[75]
• "Euro Visions: The New Europeans by Twelve Magnum Photographers". Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (Brussels), March - July 2007. The earlier exhibition augmented by photographs (by Bruno Barbey and Paolo Pellegrin) of Bulgaria and Romania.^[76]
• "The Coast Exposed". Queen's House (Greenwich, London), and smaller versions elsewhere in the UK.^[77]
• "I Shot Norman Foster". The Yard (The Architecture Foundation, London), November 2005  - January 2006. The architecture of Norman Foster.^[78] Steele-Perkins photographed the London Gherkin, "hiding it within the chaos of the City's streets, in similar fashion to his Mount Fuji series".^[79]
• "After Image: Social Documentary Photography in the 20th century". NGV International (Melbourne), November 2006  - April 2007. A number of photographers, from the 1870s to the 1980s.^[80]
• "Survival Programmes: In Britain's Inner Cities Between 1974 and 1979". (With Nicholas Battye and Paul Trevor.) Side Gallery (Newcastle), January - March 2007.
• "Tokyo Seen by Magnum Photographers". Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (Ebisu, Tokyo), March - May 2007.^[81]
• "To the Dogs". Presentation House Gallery (Vancouver), June - August 2007.^[82]
• "No Such Thing as Society: Photography in Britain 1968–1987." Aberystwyth Arts Centre, March 2008; Tullie House (Carlisle), May 2008; Ujazdów Castle (Warsaw), November 2008.^[83]
• "Darfur: Photojournalists Respond." With Lynsey Addario, Pep Bonet, Colin Finlay, Ron Haviv, Olivier Jobard, Kadir van Lohuizen, and Sven Torfinn. Holocaust Museum Houston, March - August 2008.^[84] JFK High School (Plainview, New York), Boston Public Library, University of Arkansas (Fayetteville), Idaho Historical Museum (Boise), Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center (Skokie), University of New Hampshire (Durham), Barness Family Jewish Community Center (Chandler, Arizona), 2008 - 10.^[85]
• "Bitter Fruit: Pictures from Afghanistan". (With other Magnum photographers.) Magnum Print Room (London), 2009.^[86]
• "Disposable People: Contemporary Global Slavery". (With seven other Magnum photographers.) Southbank Centre (London), and five other locations in England and Wales, 2009 - 2010. Steele-Perkins shows portraits of Korean "comfort women".^[87]
• "The Other Britain Revisited: Photographs from New Society". Victoria and Albert Museum (London), May - September 2010.
• "Facts of Life / British Documentary Photography". Photomonth, National Museum, Kraków, August - November 2010. British photography 1974 - 1997.^[88]
• "Mass Photography: Blackpool through the Camera", Grundy Art Gallery (Blackpool), 2011.^[89]
• "Dokyumentarī Fuji" / "Documentary Fuji", Shizuoka City Tokaido Hiroshige Museum of Art (Shizuoka City), July - September 2013. An exhibition of photographs by Steele-Perkins and prints by Hiroshige.^{[90] [91]}

As co-curator

• "Young British Photographers". Photographers' Gallery (London), 1975. (Co-curator, with Mark Edwards.)^[92]
• "Film Ends". Travelling in Britain, 1977. (Co-selector, with Mark Edwards.)

Collections

• Arts Council of Great Britain
• Photographers' Gallery (London)
• British Library of Political and Economic Science (London)^[93]
• Victoria and Albert Museum (London)^[94]
• Tate (London and elsewhere)^[95]
• Side Gallery (Newcastle)
• National Media Museum (Bradford)
• National Portrait Gallery (London)^[96]
• Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin)^[97]
• Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris)
• Fnac (Paris)^[98]
• Tokyo Fuji Art Museum (Hachiōji, Tokyo)
• National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne)
• Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)

Awards

• 1988: Oskar Barnack Award (Leica and World Press Photo), for a story on Thalidomide victims^{[99] [100] [101]}
• 1988: Tom Hopkinson Prize for British Photojournalism (Photographers' Gallery)^[102]
• 1989: Robert Capa Gold Medal (International Center of Photography)
• 2000: World Press Photo award, "Daily Life" category^[103]
• 2008: Terence Donovan Award (Royal Photographic Society)^[104]
• 2009: Shortlisted for the Prix Pictet for Mount Fuji^[105]
• 2014: Honorary Fellowship of The Royal Photographic Society.^[106]

Notes

1. Unless otherwise noted, biographical information comes from the profile of Steele-Perkins in Contemporary Authors vol. 211 (Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2003;), pp. 378-81.
2. Web site: The Teds are back in town – as Chris Steele-Perkins' photographs go on show. TheGuardian.com. 10 October 2016.
3. William Manchester et al., In Our Time: The World as Seen by Magnum Photographers (New York: Norton, 1989;), p. 453.
4. The booklet states that "Exit is a collective of four photographers: Nicholas Battye, Diane 'Hank' Olson, Alex Slotzkin and Paul Trevor"
5. http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=429391 "Tales of Survival"
6. David Alan Mellor, No Such Thing as Society: Photography in Britain 1967 - 1987: From the British Council and the Arts Council Collection (London: Hayward Publishing, 2007;), p. 52. Mellor talks of the "international touring exhibition England at Play; this may have been an alternative English title for Il Regno Unito si diverte and it is the subtitle of Ward's book, Wish You Were Here.
7. Documentary:Page about The Teds, Magnum Photos. Retrieved 23 March 2009. Fashion: Max Décharné, "Max Décharné's top 10 London fashion books", The Guardian, 22 November 2005. Retrieved 15 March 2009.
8. Profile in Contemporary Authors vol. 211.
9. http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article4285953.ece "War and Peace: Life in Belfast after the Troubles"
10. Web site: The Troubles in Northern Ireland, 1978 Through the Lens of Chris Steel-Perkins. 5 September 2021 .
11. Russell Miller, Magnum: Fifty Years at the Front Line of History (New York: Grove, 1998;), p. 268.
12. Miller, Magnum, pp. 268-70.
13. "Witness: The Taliban are seen as extremists, but photographer Chris Steele-Perkins has captured their humanity", Scotland on Sunday, 23 September 2001; quoted in the Contemporary Authors vol. 211 profile of Steele-Perkins.
14. Quoted by Miller, Magnum, p.304.
15. Review of Afghanistan by John F. Riddick in the Library Journal, December 2001; Nick Redman, "9 to 5, Afghan Style," Evening Standard, 6 April 2001; Jonathan Jones, "The Guide Thursday: Exhibitions: Chris Steele-Perkins", The Guardian, 17 August 2000. Each of the three is quoted in the Contemporary Authors vol. 211 profile. Review by Jason Burke, The Observer, 13 May 2001.
16. "Chris Steele-Perkins", Magnum Photos (London: Thames & Hudson, 2008;), unpaginated (opp. pl. 65).
17. Miller, Magnum, pp. vii - viii, 3 - 15.
18. "Kyapa-shō kameraman ga shuzai ", Hibakusha ga egaita genbaku no e o machikado ni kaesu kai, n.d. Biography for the 2009 Prix Pictet shortlist. Both accessed 6 January 2010.
19. Quoted in Farah Nayeri, "'Comfort Women', exploited maids show slavery's face in photos", Bloomberg News, 8 October 2008. Retrieved 11 January 2010.
20. 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.
21. http://www.amber-online.com/exhibitions/coalfield-stories Exhibition notice
22. Chris Steele-Perkins, foreword to Northern Exposures.
23. "Grants for the Arts: December 2008 Awards " (PDF file), Arts Council England. Retrieved 13 January 2010.
24. Chris Steele-Perkins, "The Hidden Face of Caring", The Guardian, 14 November 2009. Retrieved 13 January 2010.
25. Gemma Padley, "Being English: Chris Steele-Perkins, Magnum Photographer", Amateur Photographer, 19 - 26 December 2009, pp. 25 - 30. An interview with Steele-Perkins primarily about the book England, My England.
26. Sean O'Hagan, "Something old, something new: The year's best photography books", The Guardian, 28 December 2009. Retrieved 12 January 2010.
27. "Afghanistan", The New Yorker, 1 October 2001. Retrieved 15 March 2009.
28. Phil Coomes, "Mixing personal and professional", Viewfinder, BBC News, 10 November 2009. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
29. Josh Bright, review of England, My England, The Independent Photographer, 20 October 2023.
30. W. Scott Olsen, "On the joy of an idiosyncratic wonder: Review of England, My England by Chris Steele-Perkins", Frames, 17 October 2023.
31. http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/Oldest-person-Devon-features-new-book/story-16573418-detail/story.html "Oldest person in Devon features in new book"
32. https://www.dewilewis.com/collections/back-list/products/a-place-in-the-country Dewi Lewis's page about A Place in the Country
33. https://thenewlondoners.com/ Website
34. https://bluecoatpress.co.uk/product/the-troubles/ Bluecoat Press's page about The Troubles
35. https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/shop/chris-steele-perkins-wolverhampton-1978 Café Royal Books' page about Wolverhampton 1978
36. https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/shop/chris-steele-perkins-brixton-19731975 Café Royal Books' page about Brixton 1973–1975
37. http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale07/magnum/cambodianodyssey.html Description of the film
38. "Chris Steele-Perkins", author page at Northumbria University website. Retrieved 16 March 2009.
39. "Art Exhibitions", New York, 13 May 1991. (At Google Books.) Accessed 27 March 2009.
40. http://www.visapourlimage.com/history/1992.do List of 1992 exhibitions
41. http://www.pgi.ac/content/category/9/58/63/lang,en/ List of exhibitions in 1999
42. http://www.visapourlimage.com/history/1999.do List of 1999 exhibitions
43. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303184238/http://www.amber-online.com/exhibitions/afghanistan-by-chris-steele-perkins Exhibition notice
44. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/wales/866005.stm Preview/interview
45. "Art Highlights 2002", The Guardian. Retrieved 18 March 2009.
46. http://www.artswales.org/publications/Crefft6_E.pdf Crefft issue 102
47. http://archive.yorkpress.co.uk/2002/8/16/282000.html Short review
48. http://www.magnumphotos.co.jp/ws_exhibition/index.html List of past exhibitions
49. https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/14/arts/art-guide.html?pagewanted=all Short review
50. http://www.stephendaitergallery.com/dynamic/exhibit_display.asp?ArtistID=70&ExhibitID=8 Exhibition notice
51. http://www.magnumphotos.co.jp/ws_exhibition/stcechoes.html Exhibition announcement
52. http://www.amber-online.com/exhibitions/hinterland-by-chris-steele-perkins Exhibition notice
53. http://www.hostgallery.co.uk/exhibitions/2007/csp/index.html Exhibition announcement
54. http://www.culture24.org.uk/science+%2526+nature/animals/art47954 Exhibition preview
55. "Aosta, Mountain Photo Festival", Regione Autonoma Valle d'Aosta. Retrieved 25 March 2009.
56. "Chris Steele-Perkins: England My England ", Kings Place Gallery. Pascal Wyse, "Photographer Chris Steele-Perkins's view of England" (slideshow narrated by Steele-Perkins), The Guardian, 30 June 2010. Lillian He, "Review: Art at Kings Place - Sally Soames and Chris Steele-Perkins", Londonist, 29 June 2010. All accessed 2010-07-01.
57. http://www.thirdfloorgallery.com/exhibitions.html#exhibition5 Exhibition notice
58. "Galleries Inc at Central Square North  - Chris Steele-Perkins: Northern Exposures", NewcastleGateshead. Robert Clark, "Chris Steele-Perkins, Newcastle upon Tyne"; in "This week's new exhibitions", The Guardian, 15 January 2011. Both accessed 15 January 2011.
59. http://www.openeye.org.uk/archive-exhibition/chris-steele-perkins-the-pleasure-principle/ Exhibition notice
60. Alan Sykes, "Portrait photographs of the 100-up club", The Guardian, 18 October 2012. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
61. Web site: Exhibition record . 8 May 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060512182045/http://collection.britishcouncil.org/html/exhibition/exhibition.aspx?id=14895 . 12 May 2006., British Council. Retrieved 11 January 2010. This does not specify the place(s) of exhibition, but the OPAC of the libraries of the Province of Prato lists a publication titled Il Regno Unito si diverte that specifies Milan. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
62. "The Other Britain Revisited: Photographs from New Society", Victoria and Albert Museum, 2010. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
63. http://www.icp.org/atf/cf/%7BA0B4EE7B-5A90-46AB-AF37-7115A2D48F94%7D/el_salvador_press%20final.pdf Press release for a second exhibition in 2005
64. Derek Bishton, "New image for the image-makers", Electronic Telegraph (Daily Telegraph), 15 December 1999. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
65. http://www.staleywise.com/collection/magnum/magnum_style.html Exhibition notice
66. "Chris Steele-Perkins / Dettaglio evento ", Artkey. Accessed 11 January 2010.
67. https://web.archive.org/web/20110724032604/http://www.rhubarb-rhubarb.net/05_exhibitions_archive_details.asp?year=2004&eid=2 Exhibition notice
68. http://www.photography-now.com/artists/K10470.html List of exhibitions by Chris Steele-Perkins
69. https://www.theguardian.com/newsroom/story/0,11718,1323216,00.html Exhibition notice
70. http://www.comune.verona.it/scaviscaligeri/fnac/dossier.pdf Brochure about photography exhibitions by Fnac across Italy
71. http://www.hmns.org/files/marketing/NorthSouthEastWest.pdf Press release
72. http://www.photonet.org.uk/index.php?pxid=235 Exhibition notice
73. http://www.centrepompidou.fr/Pompidou/Manifs.nsf/AllExpositions/91D12C401DADE6D7C1256FF5005346D6?OpenDocument&sessionM=2.10&L=2 Exhibition notice
74. http://www.photography-now.com/institutions/veran_I7384653.html List of exhibitions at Ujazdów Castle
75. http://www.icp.org/atf/cf/%7BA0B4EE7B-5A90-46AB-AF37-7115A2D48F94%7D/el_salvador_press%20final.pdf Press release
76. http://www.expo-eurovisions.be/site/en/eurovision2-2.asp Exhibition notice
77. http://www.seabritain2005.com/upload/pdf/Coast_Exp._Leaflet_23.2.05.pdf Exhibition leaflet
78. "I Shot Norman Foster ", the Architecture Foundation exhibition notice. Retrieved 26 March 2009.
79. Simon Bainbridge, "Shooting Norman Foster", British Journal of Photography, 23 November 2005. Retrieved 5 February 2010.
80. "After Image: Social Documentary Photography in the 20th century ", NGV News, 11 October 2006. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
81. Stuart Franklin, "Tokyo in Passing ", Magnum Photos, 15 March 2007. Retrieved 26 March 2009. Also exhibition notice, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Retrieved 2009-03-27.
82. http://www.jolonghurst.com/media/update/phg_pressrelease-2.pdf Exhibition notice
83. http://www.britishcouncil.org/arts-aad-no-such-thing-as-society.htm Press release
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External links

• Chris Steele-Perkins, his own website.
• Chris Steele-Perkins at Magnum Photos.