Chris Steele-Perkins : Some Kind of Truth

3 May-30 Jun 2019

Overview

In the Print Sales Gallery Magnum photographer Chris Steele-Perkins (b.1947, Burma) studied psychology in Newcastle before moving to London in the 1970s and pursuing a career in photography. Alongside freelance work he began to manifest an ongoing interest in documenting subcultures and marginalised societies across the UK. Perhaps his best-known work from this period is The Teds (1979), an intimate series of portraits of young teddy boys, which brilliantly capture the style, culture, attitude and identity of the group.