Chris Steele-Perkins, Esq

Career: photographer; Magnum Photos: memb 1982, pres 1995-98; vice-pres Magnum Photos Japan 1998-2003; visiting prof Musashino Art Univ Tokyo 2000; Exhibitions The Pleasure Principle (FNAC Paris) 1990, Africa (Perpignon France) 1992, Cross Section (Hong Kong Festival) 1993, No Mans Land (PGI Tokyo) 1999, Afghanistan (UK tour) 2000, Fuji (MAC Birmingham and Grandship Japan) 2001, Teds (Howard Greenburg Gall NY) 2003, Echoes (FNAC Paris) 2004; Awards Oskar Barnak Award 1988, Robert Capa Gold Medal 1989, Tom Hopkinson Award 1989, La nacion Premier Photojournalism Award 1994, Co-operative Soc and One World Award (for film Dying for Publicity) 1994, Sasakawa Fndn Grant 1999 and 2004, World Press Award 2000, Terence Donovan Award RPS 2008

Books and Publications: The Teds (1979), About 70 Photographs (1980), Survival Programmes (jtly, 1982), Beirut: Frontline Story (1983), The Pleasure Principle (1989), Afghanistan (2000), Fuji (2001), Echoes (2004), Tokyo Love Hello (2007), Northern Exposures (2007), England, My England (2009), Fading Light: portraits of centenarians (2012)