chris steele-perkins – a place in the country | burn magazine

Chris Steele-Perkins – A Place in the Country

Chris Steele-Perkins A Place in the Country For a long time I have been photographing England in a series of books and essays and for a long time I have wanted to photograph life in an English Coun…

via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2015/01/chris-steele-perkins-a-place-in-the-country/

For a long time I have been photographing England in a series of books and essays and for a long time I have wanted to photograph life in an English Country Estate. The country estate plays a huge part in the history of this country and is a staple of British fiction, both in novels and as film/TV productions. The latest being Downton Abbey, and probably the best known recent novel is Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day.