Chris Killip: 1946-2020

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a b c d e f O'Hagan, Sean (14 October 2020). "Chris Killip, hard-hitting photographer of Britain's working class, dies aged 74". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 14 October 2020. No Such Thing as Society: Photography in Britain 1968–1987, Hayward Gallery (London); Ujazdów Castle (Warsaw), November 2008 – January 2009; Tullie House ( Carlisle), May–July 2008; and Aberystwyth Arts Centre ( Aberystwyth), March–April 2008. [23] My photographs seem to have moved people," he added. "I've had so many folk ask for copies of pictures where dads or family members appear in them." Facts of Life / British Documentary Photography, Photomonth, National Museum, Kraków, August–November 2010. British photography 1974–1997. [24]

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His work is featured in the permanent collections of major institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; George Eastman House; Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; Museum Folkwang, Essen; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In the Face of History: European Photographers in the 20th Century. Barbican Arts Centre, London, 2006. [22] Killip died on 13 October 2020 from lung cancer. [1] He was 74. [5] Exhibitions [ edit ] Solo [ edit ]Although four images from the series were included in his groundbreaking In Flagrante (1988), Killip resisted collecting all in a single book for over three decades―he had become so invested in them and respectful of his subjects that he needed time and distance to understand their significance. For a photographer whose work was grounded in the urgent value of documenting “ordinary” peoples’ lives, these nuanced images―radiating a vast stillness of light and time, embedded with the granularity of lives lived―reveal Killip’s conviction that no life is ordinary: everyday lives are sublime. It really took me 20 years to understand what he was seeing. There’s no filter, there’s no posing, there’s none of that, ‘Let’s prepare for the moment to be photographed.’ There’s the minimum there could be between the photographer and what’s happening. It’s as raw and real as possible, and looking through the images, I feel like I’m there.”

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By the early 80s, Killip’s portraits were regularly being featured on the cover of the London Review of Books and, in 1985, he was shown alongside his friend Graham Smith in Another Country: Photographs of the North East of England at the Serpentine Gallery in London. 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. Now Then: Chris Killip and the making of "In Flagrante", J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles), May–August 2017. [17] [18] [19] Chris said: "I was invited over, and they said 'try it for a year, and see if you like it', and I ended up staying in the job for nearly 30 years." He is survived by Mary, his son, Matthew, from a previous relationship with the Czech photographer Markéta Luskačová, his stepson, Joshua, two granddaughters, Millie and Celia, and a brother, Dermott.Another Country, Serpentine Gallery (London). Photographs of northeast England by Killip and Graham Smith, 1985 [2] [14] Arriving in the region initially after being awarded a two-year fellowship by Northern Arts, he became a founding member, exhibition curator and advisor of the Side Gallery in Newcastle. The photographs here come from early in his time in our region when he was awarded a fellowship by Northern Arts.