Perry Ogden

Perry Ogden (born 1961) is a British fashion and documentary photographer, and film director, based in Dublin. He is interested in Traveller culture.

Ogden has published three books of photography, Pony Kids (1999), 7 Reece Mews: Francis Bacon's Studio (2001) and Paddy and Liam (2018). Some of his work is held in the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the National Portrait Gallery, London.

His film Pavee Lackeen: The Traveller Girl (2005) is a drama about Irish Travellers. It won Best Film at the Irish Film & Television Awards, the Satyajit Ray Award for Best First Film at the BFI London Film Festival, the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Prize and Ecumenical Film Prize at the International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg, and Best First Feature Audience Award at Galway Film Fleadh.

He has worked commercially as a fashion photographer doing magazine and advertising campaign work.

Life and work Ogden was born in 1961 in Shropshire, UK.

Inspired by what he had witnessed making Pony Kids, He cast several members of the Maughan family as close versions of themselves and "wrote a script that draws on the Maughans’ experiences of living in a trailer on the edge of Dublin and encountering the sharp end of Irish bureaucracy."

Films directed by Ogden Pavee Lackeen: The Traveller Girl (2005) – feature-length drama, starring Winnie Maughan and Michael Collins John Berger Reads Ghassan Kanafani's 'Letter from Gaza''' (2008) – short drama

Awards 2005: Winner, Best Film, 3rd Irish Film & Television Awards (IFTA), for Pavee Lackeen, awarded to Ogden and Martina Niland

2005: Satyajit Ray Award for Best First Film, BFI London Film Festival, for Pavee Lackeen

2007: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Prize, International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg, Germany, awarded to Ogden for Pavee Lackeen 2007: Ecumenical Film Prize, International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg, Germany, for Pavee Lackeen 7 Reece Mews, Francis Bacon's Studio,'' Tony Shafrazi Gallery, SoHo, New York City, January 2002

Collections Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin National Portrait Gallery, London: 2 prints