St Patrick's Day 2009

It’s now time to vote for your favourite Guinness Storehouse photograph of 2009.

All the twelve monthly winners are now online & awaiting your vote. I would appreciate a vote for my image [March], if you see fit, as let’s be honest, I’d love to win.

Here’s a link to the voting page.

Thanks,

Shane

Alternate link – http://short.ie/voteformarch

Will give a lecture in D-Hotel, Scotch Hall, Drogheda on Sunday 28th February at 8pm.

Admission €10

Reservations/ Tickets available by contacting:

desclinton@eircom.net Phone 0866009976

Sponsors: Drogheda Photographic Club and Royal Photographic Society

Biography

At the age of two, Chris Steele-Perkins moved to England from Burma with his father. He went to school at Christ’s Hospital. At the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he studied psychology and worked for the student newspaper; he graduated with honors in 1970 and started to work as a freelance photographer, moving to London in 1971.

Apart from a trip to Bangladesh in 1973, he worked mainly in Britain in areas concerned with urban poverty and subcultures. In 1975 he worked with EXIT, a collective dealing with social problems in British cities. This involvement culminated in the book Survival Programmes in 1982. He joined the Paris-based Viva agency in 1976. In 1979 he published his first solo book, The Teds; he also edited the Arts Council of Great Britain’s book, About 70 Photographs.

Steele-Perkins joined Magnum Photos in 1979 and soon began working extensively in the developing world, in particular in Africa, Central America and Lebanon, as well as continuing to take photographs in Britain: The Pleasure Principle explores Britain in the 1980s. In 1992 he published Afghanistan, the result of four trips over four years. After marrying his second wife, Miyako Yamada, he embarked on a long-term photographic exploration of Japan, publishing Fuji in 2000. A highly personal diary of 2001, Echoes, was published in 2003, and the second of his Japanese books, Tokyo Love Hello, in March 2007. He continues to work in Britain, documenting rural life in County Durham.

Education

1967/70  Bachelor of Science in Psychology (Honours), University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
UK

Awards

2008       Royal Photographic Society Terrence Donovan Award
2004       Sasakawa Foundation grant, Japan
2000       World Press Photo (Daily Life), Amsterdam, Netherlands
2000       Visiting Professor, Musashino Art University, Tokyo
1999       Sasakawa Foundation grant, Japan
1994       La Nacion Premier Photojournalism Award
1994       One World Award (“Dying for Publicity”)
1994       Co-operative Society Award (“Dying for Publicity”)
1990       Gahan Lectureship, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA (unable to accept)
1989       Robert Capa Gold Medal, International Center of Photography, New York, USA
1988       Tom Hopkinson Prize for British Photojournalism, The Photographers’ Gallery,
London, UK
1988       Oskar Barnak Prize, World

Here’s some links to the man himself.

Magnum Photo blog

Chris Steele Perkins webpage

For those who have been following the posts I’ve been putting up here over the last few months, I’d like to let you know that I’ve moved my photoblog from this wordpress blog to the new pixelpost blog. Feel free to visit the new blog & please add it to your RSS feed. The new blog can be found at http://shanemurphy.ie

Thanks for visiting & hope to see you over on the new blog.

Regards,

Shane

“Wee Three Kings”

“Post Photowalk Refreshment”

Thanks again to Vodafone Ireland & SimplyZesty for the invite.

I have to give a big word of thanks to Vodafone Ireland & Simplyzesty.com for inviting a mad crowd of Irish photobloggers out in Dublin yesterday. We had a great day playing in the snow of the Phoenix Park & then on to Smithfield, followed up with a beautiful meal in Odessa restaurant. Thanks guys for the invite, the food, the little gift bags & the opportunity to take more photos.

We were asked to take photos with the theme ‘Cheer up Ireland’ to go with the current Vodafone adverts as they are to launch a national photo competition shortly with a grand prize of €3,000 for the winner. The top photo of the photowalk will pick up a €100 Amazon voucher to boot. Quite a lot of us ended up playing in the snow instead, but some of the best photos were got when the “Great Snow Bear of Peace” was knocked down.

Last of the RDS photos ’till next year. Love this profile taken with my 70-300 DO lens.

This has to be a great job. Conducting a choir of about 1,000 kids at their Christmas concert.

The ISPCC Hallelujah concert was a great day out for all the family.

One of the group “Angels” at the recent Halleluajh ISPCC concert in the RDS.

Another shot taken at the ISPCC Childline Halleluajh concert in the RDS earlier this month.

I had the pleasure of taking some photos at the Hallelujah concert this year in the RDS. The concert is held in association with the ISPCC & Childline & the kids of our local school loved the day out. V V Brown was one of the acts that performed that day. Superb show.