Chris Killip: 1946-2020

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This issue of the highly regarded literary and arts quarterly contains writing by, among others, Mimi Chubb, Louis B. While living and working on Tyneside, he produced his acclaimed series, In Flagrante, which captured industry - especially shipbuilding - and local communities on the cusp of decline. It was a hugely influential exhibition that prepared the ground for In Flagrante, launched at an exhibition of the same name at the Victoria and Albert Museum three years later. He moved to the US in 1991, having been offered a visiting lectureship at Harvard, where he was later appointed professor emeritus in the department of visual and environmental studies, a post he held until his retirement in 2017.

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In 1988 he published In Flagrante, a landmark of social documentary that has influenced generations of younger photographers. And though it includes many images from In Flagrante, it situates those images in a wider context, within the work Killip shot in the North East, and within his own life too. But if Killip hoped his photographs might help remember those written out of history, some of them lay unseen for a very long time. In 2011, he published Seacoal, a selection of the pictures he made in Lynemouth in the early 80s while living there in a caravan on the beach.

The master set of 69 photographs from which the book was printed was bought by the Victoria and Albert Museum (home of the national collection of the art of photography) in 1980.

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Born in Douglas, Isle of Man in 1946, he left school at age sixteen and joined the only four star hotel on the Isle of Man as a trainee hotel manager. For me that was important, that you're acknowledging people's lives, and also contextualizing people's lives. x 27cm 88pp paperback pale mushroom-coloured wraps, slight curling at bottom right lower edge and some minor smudging. Later in life, I noticed he became much more open to the idea of disseminating the work in various ways, including zines.And this approach underscored what Killip did with his work after he’d shot it; his careful editing or his choices about how to show it. Shortlisted, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, for his exhibition What Happened – Great Britain 1970–1990 at Le Bal in Paris. It was like the images were children; they were taken care of and in the right places, being held in ways that will honor them and keep them available.

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He had left school at 16 and never studied photography, but he wasn’t intimidated by Harvard’s reputation, nor overly impressed. Killip’s camera loved the otherworldly light; a grounded man, he nevertheless talked of these pictures in terms of 19th-century German romanticism. We would tell each other if we’d read a new book or seen new photography that was particularly exciting to know. Bringing together works from his groundbreaking monographs including Surfers, Yes Rasta, Trenchtown Love and Gypsies, Patrick Cariou: Works 1985–2005 (published by Damiani) takes us on a scenic journey around the world, offering an intimate and captivating look at cultures that distance themselves from the blessings and curses of modernity.Facts of Life / British Documentary Photography, Photomonth, National Museum, Kraków, August–November 2010. Though often described as bleak, his work possesses a poetic undertow that was linked to his ability to evoke conflicting moods in a single image. A second, larger-format edition of the photographs constituting the 1988 book, with two extra photographs. His work centered on people living ''outside of time'' with traditional jobs and skills that had been passed down through generations. His project, "Black Diamond," captured the lives of people, including men, women, and children, dedicated to coal extraction in grueling conditions.