Leica Gallery Mayfair
64-66 Duke Street
London, W1K 6JD

Feb 21 - Mar 23 2020

The Pleasure Principle is a powerful and searching photographic portrait of England in the 1980s. Chris Steele-Perkins records the rapidly changing social landscape that he found after returning from extensive travels in the third world. Using ideas of pleasure he explores public rituals that cut across class and location. The result is familiar yet disturbing.

England can be a strange place - alternatively funny and serious, happy and sad. "The Pleasure Principle" is a collection of color photographs of England and...