,Magnum photographer and celebrated photojournalist Chris Steele-Perkins has died aged 78. His beautifully-crafted documentary images of people and of war zones will live on in as a lasting memory of his long career.
Chris was born in Myanmar (then Burma) in 1947 and was brought to live in Somerset in the west of England when he was two years old. His father was English and his mother Burmese. He was, he said, the only person of Asian appearance living in Burnham-on-Sea in the 1950s. “I belonged most of the time, but I knew I was different,” he says in The New Londoners. “The repeated question, nine out of ten times well-meaning, was ‘Where are you from?’”
