The Pierre Auger Observatory, located in Argentina, provides an unprecedented integrated aperture in the hard steel shot search for primary photons with energy above 1017 eV over a large portion of the southern sky.Such photons can be detected in principle via the air showers they initiate at such energies, using the jerome brown jersey complement of Auger Observatory detectors.We discuss the results obtained in diffuse and directional searches for primary photons in the EeV energy range.