The British photographer Chris Steele-Perkins died, in September, at the age of seventy-eight, after a groundbreaking and globe-spanning career, leaving behind a catalogue that ranges from images of war-torn Afghanistan during the mid- to late nineties to scenes from Japan in the early two-thousands. But Steele-Perkins, a member of the Magnum photo agency, was particularly attuned to discovering the alien, and the alienated, at home, in the United Kingdom. There, he was at once an insider—he attended Christ’s Hospital, among the country’s most prestigious boarding schools—and an outsider, having been born in what was then still colonial Burma to a British military father and a local Burmese mother. It made sense, then, that Steele-Perkins was drawn to the depiction of subcultures and the m

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