Chris Steele-Perkins joined Magnum Photos in 1979 and has worked extensively in the developing world, in particular in Africa, Central America and Lebanon, as well as continuing to take photographs in Britain. In 2005, Steele-Perkins travelled to North Pakistan one month after the earthquake to photograph in response to the disaster that killed over 73,000 people and made millions homeless. In "Pakistan 2005: When the Earth Quaked," he has documented the devastating effects on the landscape and people's lives - first in a remote Northern Pakistan village, then in a displaced people's camp, then a hospital.
Steele-Perkins visited Kessenuma in Japan, photographing the same street 23 days after the March 2011 Tsunami and then again 7 months later. In "Tsunami, Streetwalk 1 Kesennuma," he presents parallel strips of his photographs like a walkby, allowing us to share in his expeience of walking down a Japanese street by photographing it every 20 paces. We see in the top photo strip the original destruction from the Tsunami but also we see that from the bottom strip that little has changed 7 months later. It remains something of a wasteland still raw from the effects of the Tsunami. These films will also be shown during the Response Symposium on Sunday 2 June, 2013. A Talking Culture Symposium - Response
