Chris Killip: 1946-2020

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With 50 black and white photographs: a view of Britain in the eighties reflecting the stark reality of industrial society in decline.

Born in the Isle of Man in 1946, he began his career as a commercial photographer before turning to his own work in the late 1960s. If so, one might learn that the charismatic fisherman Leso, who figures prominently in Killip’s early 1980s photos of the small fishing village in Skillingrove, UK, would himself eventually be lost at sea. Published in 1988, In Flagrante describes the communities in Northern England that were devastated by the deindustrialisation common to policies carried out by Thatcher and her predecessors starting in the mid-1970s. Wonderful enlarged version of the famous photobook classic from 1988: Martin Parr, The Photobook vol 2, page 299.

Chris Killip 1946 - 2020 is the definitive, full-career retrospective of the life and work of Chris Killip, one of the UK’s most important and influential post-war documentary photographers. A career retrospective of the late Chris Killip documenting the economic shifts in the North of England in the 1970s and 1980s and the lives of those who in his words 'had history done to them'. In 1991 Killip was invited to be a Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University. Chris Killip is widely regarded as one of the most influential British photographers of his generation.

By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. With a 4 × 5 camera around my neck and a Norman flash and its battery around my waist, I must have looked like something out of a 1950s B movie. Tracy Marshall-Grant is Director of Development at the Royal Photographic Society and Producer at Northern Narratives.The photographs in the book provide a raw and poignant depiction of the social and economic changes that took place in this region, particularly in areas heavily reliant on industries like coal mining and steel production. Chris Killip first attempted to photograph Seacoal Beach in Lynemouth, Northumberland, England, in 1976, but it took him six years to gain the trust of the people who worked there. It includes a foreword by Brett Rogers, in-depth essays by Ken Grant tracing Killip's life and career, and texts by Gregory Halpern, Amanda Maddox and Lynsey Hanley.