Chris Steele-Perkins
Steele-Perkins is a British photographer who was born in Burma in 1947. He studied chemistry at the University of York before joining the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, as photographer and picture editor for a student magazine. After graduating in psychology in 1970 he worked as a freelance photographer, and also lectured in psychology. Steele-Perkins is member of Magnum Photos, and is best known for his depiction of Africa, Afghanistan, England, and Japan.
Children Scavenging in Karachi
'Slavery, in different forms, in different places, in different times links these photographs. In 1997, when I took the photograph of the garbage-collecting children in Karachi, I was not thinking of them as slaves, I was thinking of them as part of a process where waste is re-cycled, plastics, metals collected, sorted, melted down, transformed, re-used. A good thing. Only later did I start to think about whether they had any choice in the matter, if they had other realistic options in order to survive, whether they were physically intimidated into doing what they do. I don't really know the answer,...
Lithograph£300.00