After a long career as a cameraman, editor and director, the photography makes a re-entry in Perry’s life. Next to his snapshot photo’s he concentrates on portraits of artists and musicians. After several contributions to magazines, art books en a couple of exhibitions, he decides to focus on autonomous photography. In the last couple of years, he had several solo exhibitions, among others, in Museum van Bommel van Dam. Also he was granted use of the atelier at Flacc in Genk, Belgium and at the Jan van Eyck Academie. At both locations he performs experiments on the refractoriness behaviour of risography.

The starting point of Perry’s photography is to apply the reverse process of developing photo’s, whereas he turns photography to darkness instead of light. This is his answer
to the accepted customs in photography, a.o. as a reaction to the digital image bombing on our screens in which nothing is left to the imagination. His dark images initially appear as abstract black windows in which the whispering motifs seem to hesitate to come forward or to take another step backwards to disappear. In their dark despair, their almost invisibility, which can just as well be a self-assured sense of the unrecognizability of the self as an image, they put the viewer to the test.