PHOTOMONTH IN KRAKOW — 2010
CHRIS KILLIP
Chris Killip (1946) – gave up taking commercial photographs in the 1960s in order to do documentary work. His photographs maintain a classic, black-and-white tone, they portray the vanishing customs of the residents of the Isle of Man (Isle of Man, 1973), where Killip is originally from. From 1976-1987 the artist took pictures in Northeast England for the album In Flagranti (1988), summing up the Margaret Thatcher years, which resulted in irreversible changes to the traditional industrial landscape. He received the 2nd Henri Carter-Bresson Award for his published photographs. In the late 1970s he opened the Side Gallery in New Castle, where the British documentary photograph community gathered together.
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