Chris Steele-Perkins (British, 1947- ) was born in Rangoon, Burma. While studying at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1967, Steele-Perkins worked as a photographer and picture editor for the student magazine. After graduating, and while lecturing in psychology, he began freelancing as a photographer. By the end of 1971 Steele-Perkins had moved to London and taken up photography full-time. After two years of working in Britain he was commissioned by several relief agencies to photograph in Bangladesh, and 1974 saw the resultant pictures exhibited in 'The Face of Bengal' at the Camerawork Gallery in London. His documentary photography for his first book: The Teds, was published 1979. This set of pictures detailed the last great wave of England's Teddy Boys - a flashily dressed and sometimes-violent youth movement that originated in the 1950s. In 1982 Steele-Perkins became a full member of the Magnum Photos. He won the Oscar Barnack Prize and the Tom Hopkinson award for British Photojournalism in 1988, and the Robert Capa Gold Medal in 1989.