Chris Killip
Splicing the male gaze and strippers revisited: the best photography books of 2022
Cutting up works by male photographers, impressionistic visions and tributes to lives spent chasing art through a lens, this year’s photobooks were unmissable
Sean O’Hagan
21, Dec, 2022 @2:11 PM
To romanticise or demonise – not the only ways to frame working-class lives | Kenan Malik
A Chris Killip and Graham Smith retrospective from the 70s and 80s captures an absence of hope still felt today
Kenan Malik
15, Oct, 2022 @6:23 PM
‘We wanted to value and document working-class culture’: the photography of Chris Killip and Graham Smith
They were hailed as the great documentarians of their age for their intimate portraits of the north-east of England in the 70s and 80s. Now, almost 40 years after a groundbreaking exhibition, their work is being shown together again
Sean O’Hagan
11, Oct, 2022 @1:36 PM
The big picture: Chris Killip captures a Sunday stroll in Skinningrove
This stark image of a family outing has an untamed quality that matches the North Yorkshire coastal village setting
Tim Adams
02, Oct, 2022 @6:00 AM
Chris Killip obituary
Photographer of working-class life during the decline of industry in north-east England
Sean O’Hagan
16, Oct, 2020 @5:45 PM
Chris Killip: recognition for a great photographer | Letter
Letter: Mark Haworth-Booth on ‘a remarkable talent and a very special human being’
Letters
16, Oct, 2020 @3:51 PM
Chris Killip, hard-hitting photographer of Britain's working class, dies aged 74
Influential artist, hailed by Martin Parr as a ‘key player’ in British photography, captured human dignity amid industrial decline in England’s north-east
Sean O’Hagan
14, Oct, 2020 @7:19 AM
The man who tried to contact aliens from his grandma's living room
A new documentary follows the 30-year cosmic quest by US space enthusiast John Shepherd. What drove him to beam messages and music, from Can to Coltrane, into space?
Sean O’Hagan
23, Aug, 2020 @9:00 AM
Moshpit mayhem: the northern club where punks rampaged to Hellbastard
The Station was a legendary hotspot where cider-fuelled punks would pogo to Rancid, Death Zone and more. Chris Killip reveals how he photographed the pummelling chaos
Sean O’Hagan
31, Mar, 2020 @5:00 AM
The big picture: Chris Killip captures the last days of shipbuilding
The photographer’s collection The Last Ships records the decline of heavy industry on the Tyne in the 1970s
Sean O'Hagan
05, Jan, 2019 @3:00 PM
In Flagrante Two by Chris Killip review – bleakness and boredom in sharp focus
Chris Killip’s landmark 1988 book, now reissued, is a moving depiction of the hopelessness of life in the north-east in the Thatcher years
Sean O'Hagan
21, Feb, 2016 @8:00 AM
Deutsche Börse photography prize 2013 – video
Reimagining everything from a Zambian space programme to Bertolt Brecht, Sean O'Hagan examines the four exhibitions nominated for the annual Deutsche Börse photography prize
Sean O'Hagan and Cameron Robertson
18, Apr, 2013 @8:56 AM
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