Chris Steele-Perkins: Burmese Boy Bathing

The Teddy Boys were a flashily dressed, rebellious and sometimes violent youth movement that originated in Britain in the '50s. The three-quarter-length Edwardian jacket with velvet collar, drainpipe trousers and quiff became a focus of male fashion which still holds cult status today. The Teds combines image and text to ...more

"Afghanistan" is introduced by the French essayist and traveller André Velter and includes essays and verses by the Afghani poet Sayd Bahodine Majrouh, who was assassinated in Pakistan in 1988. 76 duotone photographs. ...more

The echo has a nostalgie de la boue that history cannot convey; Proust was a master of the reverberating sounds of the past, ill-defined and resonant. Chris Steele-Perkins has selected here, from the fragments of a working photographer's life and the archive of a single year--2001, dawn of a new ...more

"When I started photographing in Tokyo, my core subjects were elsewhere: in the developing world. And of course in my homeland, England. "Things changed when I met my wife, Miyako Yamada. I now had a compelling reason for being in Japan. "I started with a large project on Mount Fuji; ...more

Dazzling and idiosyncratic photographs of contemporary Japan, celebrating extremes of beauty, the handprint of techno-culture, and the irony of documentary, by the noted British photographer Chris Steele-Perkins. The impetus for this three-year project began when Steele-Perkins was offered a gift from his Japanese wife of the nineteenth-century master printmaker Katsushika ...more

England is a strange place-- funny, complex and sad. Distance yourself from it, experience other cultures-- then look again. That strangeness becomes almost overwhelming. This is a powerful and perceptive view of England in the eighties. Using ideas of 'pleasure,' Chis Steele-Perkins explores a public, ritual face that cuts across ...more

Returning to the North East in 2001 to document the Durham Coalfield, at one time the heartland of the British coal industry, Chris Steele-Perkins found himself in that exurban culture that we now associate with "Billy Elliot". This world of "lamping" (for rabbits), ferreting, whippet racing, grouse shooting, pigeon fancying ...more