PerouBy Maddie Mason 10BISprowston Community High School

Perou - Basic Information Early Life● Perou was born in Newick, a small village in East Sussex, England.● Perou has stated that he, ‘had a very happy, carefree childhood growing up in the countryside’.● He went to primary school at Newark Church of England school and completed secondary school at

Chailey and Haywards Heath Sixth form.● When Perou finished his Religious Studies and Design A levels he considered a career as a long-

distance lorry driver or as a missionary. But perou states that he ‘saw the dark’ after a short stint as a butler he completed a BTEC OND in design Photography at North East Surrey College of Technology.

● Between 1991-1994 Perou studied for a BA honours degree in Photography, Film and Video Arts at the university of westminster

Perou - Basic Information Professional Career● After graduating in 1994 Perou worked at Click Studios in London as a studio manager where he met many of the

world leading photographers.● It was his time spent at Click Studios that Perou learned photography professionally. He started shooting editorial

clients like ‘time out, skin two’ and ‘dazed & confused’ magazines. He also started shooting bands, following work that he did with his friends who were in the band ELKA.

● In 1995 Perou moves to the first floor of a converted fire station in Old Street, London. Shortly after, ‘Dazed & Confused’ relocated to the first ground floor of the same building and Perou started working on the picture desk with the photographic director, Phil Poynter. Perou continued to shoot for magazines and record companies and left ‘Dazed & Confused’ around 1997

● Perou was initially known for as a ‘fetish photographer’ through his early work ‘skin two’ magazine and after being featured in the book Fetish: Masters of Erotic Fantasy Photography.

Perou - Basic InformationProfessional Career● In 2000, Perou opened up his own photographic studio and named it the ‘Perou

Factory’ In Hackney Wick.● In 2006 the London Development Agency ‘compulsory purchased’ the Perou

Factory as part of redevelopments for the 2012 Olympics. Perou now lives with his family on an old farm in East Kent.

● In 2012, Perou with a team of supportive volunteers, started renovating a dilapidated warehouse in Bow, East London. In 2013 it was launched as 'Bow Bunker', which is a flexible place for photography, film and very special events.

Perou - TV factsChronological Order of Television● He directed Marilyn Manson rockumentary ‘God is in the TV’ in 1999● He was the co-director with Chris Turner for Black Box Recorder ‘the art of driving’ in 2001● He was the co-director with Bill Yukich for Eighties Matchbox B-line disaster ‘Mister Mental’ in

2004● He directed Kt Tunstall's music video ‘hold on’ in 2007● 2003 Season 5 Absolutely Fabulous (cameo) in episode ‘Exploitin’ with Jean-Paul Gaultier● 2004 BBC Picture of Africa.● 2005 Channel 5 Make Me A Super Model UK Season 1 judge.● 2006 Channel 5 Make Me A Super Model UK Season 2 judge and mentor.● 2008 Celebrity Weakest Link ‘Body Beautiful’ episode..● 2008 Bravo TV (America) Make Me A Super Model Season 2 judge.● 2011 Channel 4 "Dirty Sexy Things"

Perou- some of his photography

- Fashion (dirty sexy things)

Personal section of his website

Fashion section of this website

Music section of this website

PerouThese next 2 slides will be of my favourite photographs and the reasons why

This is one of my favourite photographs by Perou. I print screened this photo from his ‘Personal’ section of his website, i have mentioned before that it’s my favourite part of his website. I had to print screen this because theres no option for me to save it due to copyright.The reason i love this photo is because it genuinely makes me laugh, he’s taken a photo of something that is quite impossible to follow. The ‘Ignore this text’ is the focal point of the picture, of course people are going to read the text, where else are they going to look or know what the photo is about. It’s so simple but still stands out as a quirky photo. I love it.It looks as if there was graffiti behind it at first because the white paint looks like it’s covering something.The lighting of this photo is also nice, it looks quite vignette and musky like a lot of his personal photos. Sometimes i think they look like they’ve been taken on the back of a car park wall or somewhere ‘skanky’ because of the effect on them and the surroundings.

This is my second favourite photo because when i look it my heart sinks a little. It instantly makes me think of poor parts of Africa, India, China etc. Wherever it is it’s definitely a third world country. People actually live there? They have to live in those conditions every single day with disease and hundreds of people around them in, what should be, their personal space. This photo was also screen shotted from Perou’s ‘Personal’ section of the website.There are so many things to think about when I look at Perou’s photo, the fact he doesn’t leave any information or the story behind his photos makes it even better because you can think what you want about what’s going on in them and it’s not right or wrong. You can tell that more than 10 families live in the part of that photograph. There are more than 5 washing lines and hundreds of clothes hanging on them. I don’t think i’ve ever seen a slum much worse than this, it really breaks my heart knowing that real human beings just like me live in conditions like this. They haven’t done anything wrong to deserve living there, they were just born in the wrong country at the wrong time, and that’s really sad to know.The lighting and the focal point on this photo really makes it stand out. Perou has also used composition really well and used the technique of the 6 boxes, having something going on in each square of the six. It’s weird because the people living here might actually be happy, we just think it’s really sad because of what we have right now, we couldn’t picture ourselves living here and if we did we’d be extremely depressed. They might be happy that they actually have access to some water and to shelter, and they have all their family with them or near the,. It’s an astonishing way of capturing their sort of lives in a photograph