Perry Ogden Explained

Perry Ogden (born 1961)^[1] is a British fashion and documentary photographer,^{[2] [3]} and film director, based in Dublin. He is interested in Traveller culture.^[4]

Ogden has published three books of photography, Pony Kids (1999), 7 Reece Mews: Francis Bacon's Studio (2001) and Paddy and Liam (2018).^{[5] [6]} Some of his work is held in the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the National Portrait Gallery, London.

His film Pavee Lackeen: The Traveller Girl (2005) is a drama about Irish Travellers.^[7] It won Best Film at the Irish Film & Television Awards, the Satyajit Ray Award for Best First Film at the BFI London Film Festival, the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Prize and Ecumenical Film Prize at the International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg, and Best First Feature Audience Award at Galway Film Fleadh.

He has worked commercially as a fashion photographer doing magazine and advertising campaign work.^[8]

Life and work

Ogden was born in 1961 in Shropshire, UK. He grew up in London, was educated at Eton College and first went to Ireland in 1985. He is now based in Dublin.

While at Eton, he published a magazine called Lipstick in 1979. He spent two years making portraits of the young riders and dealers in Smithfield horse market in Dublin, for his first book Pony Kids (1999).^[9]

Inspired by what he had witnessed making Pony Kids, Ogden's first feature length film was Pavee Lackeen: The Traveller Girl (2005), a documentary-style semi-improvised drama about Irish Travellers.^{[10] [11]} He cast several members of the Maughan family as close versions of themselves and "wrote a script that draws on the Maughans’ experiences of living in a trailer on the edge of Dublin and encountering the sharp end of Irish bureaucracy."

Two brothers, boxers Paddy and Liam Doran from a Traveller family in Celbridge, County Kildare, modelled for Ogden when they were between ages 10 and 16, for various fashion campaigns. Ogden used these photographs for his book Paddy and Liam (2018).

Publications

Photography books by Ogden

• Pony Kids. New York: Aperture, 1999; . London: Jonathan Cape, 1999; . Edited by Ronnie Cooke Newhouse. With an introduction by Fintan O'Toole.
• 7 Reece Mews: Francis Bacon's Studio. London: Thames & Hudson, 2001. . With a foreword by John Edwards.
• Paddy and Liam. Idea, 2018. Edition of 500 copies. Accompanying each image is commentary from the subjects.

Publications with contributions by Ogden

• The Fourfold View of a Star. Sky Dog, 1994. By Ogden, Bruno de Monès, Jonathan Becker, and Maki Fujimoto. Text in English, French and German.
• Fragments: Architecture and the Unfinished: Essays presented to Robin Middleton. Thames & Hudson, 2006. Edited by Barry Bergdoll and Werner Oechslin. . Published to mark the retirement of architectural historian Robin Middleton.^[12]

Films directed by Ogden

• Pavee Lackeen: The Traveller Girl (2005) – feature-length drama, starring Winnie Maughan and Michael Collins
• John Berger Reads Ghassan Kanafani's 'Letter from Gaza (2008) – short drama

Awards

• 2005: Winner, Best Film, 3rd Irish Film & Television Awards (IFTA), for Pavee Lackeen, awarded to Ogden and Martina Niland^[13]

• 2005: Satyajit Ray Award for Best First Film, BFI London Film Festival, for Pavee Lackeen^{[14] [15]}

• 2007: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Prize, International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg, Germany, awarded to Ogden for Pavee Lackeen^[16]
• 2007: Ecumenical Film Prize, International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg, Germany, for Pavee Lackeen
• 2007: Best First Feature Audience Award, Galway Film Fleadh, Galway, Ireland, for Pavee Lackeen

Exhibitions

• Pony Kids, Smithfield, Dublin, May 1997^[17]
• 7 Reece Mews, Francis Bacon's Studio, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, SoHo, New York City, January 2002^[18]

Collections

• Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin^{[19] [20]}
• National Portrait Gallery, London

2 prints^[21]

See also

• Desmond Guinness

Notes and References

1. Web site: Andrew. Pulver. 2018-04-18. Photographer Perry Ogden's best shot. 22 July 2009. The Guardian.
2. News: 2018-04-18. The road less travelled. The Irish Times.
3. News: 2018-04-18. Coming of age in the Irish Traveller community. Huck Magazine. 15 March 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180625114147/http://www.huckmagazine.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/perry-ogden/. 25 June 2018. dead.
4. News: 2018-04-19. Model Travellers Paddy and Liam: 'The clothes are nice but I wouldn't wear them'. The Irish Times. Deirdre. McQuillan.
5. News: 2018-04-18. The two teenage Irish Traveller brothers who became fashion world sensations. Metro. 23 March 2018.
6. News: 2018-04-19. Teenage Traveller brothers star in new fashion campaign. The Irish Times.
7. News: 2018-04-19. Pavee Lackeen. Time Out London.
8. Web site: 2018-04-18. Perry Ogden: Shooting stars. The Week Portfolio.
9. News: 2018-04-19. Pony Kids: Urban cowboys. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/pony-kids-urban-cowboys-1069074.html . 2022-05-25 . subscription . live. The Independent. 6 February 1999.
10. Web site: 2018-04-19. Has the film Pavee Lackeen changed anything for this group of Irish travellers?. 10 February 2006. The Guardian.
11. Web site: 2018-04-19. Pavee Lackeen: The Traveller Girl - BBC Two. BBC.
12. Book: Robin. Middleton. Barry. Bergdoll. Werner. Oechslin. Fragments architecture and the unfinished. 2006. Thames & Hudson. London. 9780500342145. 804229226. Open WorldCat.
13. News: 2018-04-19. Tales of a traveller family. The Irish Times. Michael. Dwyer.
14. News: Jennifer O’Brien. Ireland Arts Correspondent. 2018-04-18. Traveller brothers who took fashion by storm find new fame in the frame. The Times. 14 March 2018. 0140-0460. www.thetimes.co.uk.
15. Web site: 2018-04-19. 'Pavee Lackeen' Wins London Film Festival Award . The Irish Film & Television Network. www.iftn.ie.
16. News: 2018-04-19. Pavee Lackeen takes awards in Germany. RTE.ie. 29 November 2005.
17. Web site: Stephen. Hull. 2018-04-19. Source Reviews: Pony Kids by Peter Smyth. Source.
18. News: Roberta. Smith. Roberta Smith. 2018-04-18. Art in Review; Perry Ogden -- '7 Reece Mews, Francis Bacon's Studio'. The New York Times. 0362-4331. NYTimes.com.
19. Web site: Website Designed, Developed and Hosted by Damien Carbery -. www.damiencarbery.com. 2018-04-19. Untitled from the series 'Burntollet'. www.imma.ie.
20. Web site: Website Designed, Developed and Hosted by Damien Carbery -. www.damiencarbery.com. 2018-04-19. Second Sight: The David Kronn Photography Collection. www.imma.ie.
21. Web site: 2018-04-18. Perry Ogden - Person - National Portrait Gallery. www.npg.org.uk.