Fading Light

Chris Steele-Perkins

Details

ISBN: 978-0-85716-031-7
RRP: £TBA
Released: TBA 2012
Format: TBA
Extent: TBApp
Illustrations:  TBA

Book Overview
It was the amazing statistic which got Chris Steele-Perkins attention. There are 10,000 people aged over 100 in the UK and that number is growing rapidly. The Office of National Statistics predicts that 5% of the people alive today in the UK will live to be over 100. That is 3 million people.

However, this book is not about statistics and the implications, it is about the people. In Fading Light Chris creates a portrait of this new generation. They are a mixed bunch of people who have seen many changes throughout their lives and have many stories to tell.

Fading Light is a moving book showing the increasing number of centenarians and their miraculous ability to survive until the great age of 100.

About the Author

Chris Steele-Perkins is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning Magnum photographer whose assignments have taken him around the world. Born in Burma in 1947 he moved to England when he was two. His books include The Teds (1979), Beirut: The Frontline Story (1983), The Pleasure Principle (1989), Afghanistan (2000), Tokyo Love Hello (2007) Northern Exposures (2007) and England, My England (2009).