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Archive - Chris Steele-Perkins : 1947-2025 

Chris Steele-Perkins 

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of beloved Magnum photographer Chris Steele-Perkins, aged 78.

Chris Steele-Perkins was born in 1947 in Rangoon, Burma, now Myanmar. His father was English, and his mother Burmese. From the age of two, he lived in Burnham, England, with his father, and attended school in Sussex, before studying Psychology at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He worked on the student newspaper and was inspired to become a photojournalist by documentary essays he had seen in The Sunday Times by photographers including Don McCullin.

For the first two decades... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1999

JAPAN. Road works and Fuji near Kawaguchiko. I stopped at some... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1976

G.B. ENGLAND. Red Deer, Croydon. 1976. 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1978

G.B. ENGLAND. Wolverhampton. Disco. 1978. 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1982

G.B. ENGLAND. Blackpool. 1982. On the beach with dog and donkeys.... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1981

SOUTHERN AFRICA. Lesotho. School children during a rainstorm.... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1985

G.B. ENGLAND. 1985. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during the... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1976

Chris Steele-Perkins 1978

GB. NORTHERN IRELAND. West Belfast. Outside Divis Flats. 1978.... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1975

G.B. ENGLAND. Middlesbrough. Slum area. 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1975

GB. England. London. 1975. Notting Hill Carnival. 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1988

USSR. Leningrad. 1988. Prison inmates in a punishment cell. 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1976

G.B. ENGLAND. London. Lyceum Ballroom. 1976. 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1988

NORTHERN IRELAND. Milltown Cemetery, West Belfast. 1988. Mourners... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1996

AFGHANISTAN. Taliban fighters take refuge behind armour as they... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1999

JAPAN. Fuji City. Mobil filling station from footbridge. 1999.... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1976

GB. England. London. The Teds. Tongue Tied Danny's wedding. 1976.... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1975

G.B. SCOTLAND. Glasgow. Poverty 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1990

South Africa. Soweto. 1990. Nelson MANDELA at the Soccer City... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1978

NORTHERN IRELAND. Belfast. Catholic West Belfast. Falls Road.... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1992

Africa. Somalia. Mogadishu. 1992. A woman and her baby waiting... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1989

GB. England. London. 1989. Father Christmas delivers presents... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1982

LEBANON. Beirut. On the 16th september 1982, members of the Kitaeb... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1982

LEBANON. Beirut. 1982. Memorial photograph of a young Palestinian... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1990

South Africa. Soweto. 1990. Nelson and Winnie MANDELA at the... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1976

GB. ENGLAND. Stan the Man. 1976. 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1996

Afghanistan. Forces of warlord General Dostum on their way to... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 2001

JAPAN. Shizuoka. Coaching baseball between Fujinomiya and Gotemba.... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 2001

Japan. Supporters of Consadole Sapporo, from Northern Japan,... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1980

UGANDA. Special feeding centre. Girls are fed in preference to... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1978

Northern Ireland. West Belfast. Catholic area. Youth with a stone... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1975

G.B. ENGLAND. London. Brixton. Street party. 1975. 

Chris Steele-Perkins 2004

Bahrain. Manama seafront. 2004. 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1978

GB. NORTHERN IRELAND. Belfast. Identification with the Provos... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1976

GB. ENGLAND. London. Lyceum Ballroom. 1976. 

Chris Steele-Perkins 2001

JAPAN. Looking through a hotel window in Tokushima. 2001. 

Chris Steele-Perkins 2001

GB. ENGLAND. Kent. Small pond in Kent. 2001. 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1988

G.B. ENGLAND. Glyndebourne. Picnic at the Glyndebourne opera.... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1977

GB. ENGLAND. Southend.1977. 

Chris Steele-Perkins 2001

Japan. Children's teams from around Saitama take part in the... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1997

JAPAN. Tokyo. Salarymen on subway 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1978

G.B. NORTHERN IRELAND. Belfast. On the Falls road. 1978. 

Chris Steele-Perkins 2000

JAPAN. Tokyo. train system 

Chris Steele-Perkins 2004

MARSHALL ISLANDS. Majuro. Sea level rise makes the Pacific Ocean... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1983

Paris. 3D cinema. 

Chris Steele-Perkins 2004

Bahrain. Mining plant. 2004. 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1978

GB. NORTHERN IRELAND. Belfast. Children with slingshots. 1978.... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1985

CHAD. Child waving. 1985. 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1994

A young bushman child leaps off a rock in Kaga Kama. 1994. 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1999

Japan. Kyoto. Geiko-san waiting outside their Oehaya. 1999. 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1999

JAPAN. Yamanashi. Hot spring, near Kawaguchiko. 1999. 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1995

SOUTH AFRICA. Policing Hillbrow. 1995. Victim of an agression... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 2005

JAPAN. Hiroshima. Mr Hideo Kimura stands where he was when he... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1990

The Erasmus children help out on the farm after school. 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1989

BANGLADESH. Water pump. 1989. 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1994

ZAIRE. Goma. Rwandan refugees in Goma, being taken to a refuge.... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1995

MYANMAR (Burma) Young Buddhist monks look out from their monastry... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 2000

JAPAN. Preparing fields, near Gotemba.2000. 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1980

SOMALIA. Children playing by refugee camp where they come to... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1975

U.K. ENGLAND. Swinging on a lampost in West End of Newcastle.... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1989

EGYPT. Cairo. Naguib Mahfouz. 1989. 
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