Chris Steele-Perkins’ photos connected us with the humans behind the headlines

The Magnum photographer captured the Troubles, teddy boys and Thatcher, but it was one shot of a 1970s Wolverhampton dancehall that resonated loudly with meWhen the British-Burmese photographer Chris Steele-Perkins died earlier this week, one of the many to pay tribute to him was the American nonfiction writer Patrick Radden Keefe. In particular, it was the images Steele-Perkins took in West Belfast during the Troubles that Radden Keefe was drawn to.These images, taken from a tour of Northern Ireland in 1979, included a selection from the Divis Flats. The notorious Republican stronghold was the last place Jean McConville was seen alive before she was executed by the IRA for being an alleged informant. Continue reading...

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