Killip immersed himself in the places he photographed making the images so personal they transport you to that moment whether he's on a beach, housing estate or mosh pit.

Wunderschöne, erweiterte neu-gestaltete Auflage des legendären Fotobuch-Klassikers von 1988: Martin Parr, The Photobook vol 2, Seite 299. Wonderful enlarged version of the famous photobook classic from 1988: Martin Parr, The Photobook vol 2, page 299. For me that was important, that you're acknowledging people's lives, and also contextualizing people's lives.Published one year after and in a much more smaller run (of only 1000 copies) than the original english edition (Martin Secker and Warburg, London, 1988). The definitive, full-career retrospective of the life and work of Chris Killip (1946-2020), one of the UK's most important and influential post-war documentary photographers. Some corner curling with crease to lower front cover corner, sticker residue to base of rear cover, tight and unmarked. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Museum Folkwang, Essen; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate Britain and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. By the time this particular man reaches the top of the stairs, his individual legs will feel too tired for this particular concept to bloom.

The catalog volume 'Arbeit / Work' accompanied the major Chris KILLIP retrospective exhibition 'Arbeit/Work. A highly anticipated retrospective of the life and work of Chris Killip, one of the leading and most influential photographers to emerge from the United Kingdom over the last century. His photographs are recognized as some of the most important visual records of 1980s Britain; as editor of this book Ken Grant reflects, they tell the story of those who ‘had history “done to them”, who felt its malicious disregard and yet, like the photographer with whom they shared so much of their lives, refused to yield or look away. Announcing the definitive, full-career retrospective of the life and work of Chris Killip (1946-2020), one of the UK’s most important and influential post-war documentary photographers. Including previously unpublished illustrations and ephemera as well as photographs spanning Killip’s entire life with texts by Ken Grant, Amanda Maddox, Gregory Halpern, and Lynsey Hanley, and a foreword by Brett Rogers, director of the Photographers’ Gallery, this exquisite collection sheds new light on an astonishing talent.To know this is to find inevitable heartbreak in Killip’s subtle appreciation for the hardworking lads who have few options beyond fishing, drinking, and otherwise hanging out, waiting for something exciting to happen, in a time and place when there was no likelihood of escape.

The definitive, full-career retrospective of the life and work of Chris Killip (1946-2020), one of the UK’s most important and influential post-war documentary photographers. It is touching to know that Killip was able to assist in the editing of his final publication before succumbing to an illness in the fall of 2020, and that his longtime printer Steidl was brought on board to help produce this beautiful photobook. Setting out in open air boats on stormy seas, or queuing for bread during a flour shortage, these were situations that Killip documented with the compassion of one who had himself known hard times. It happened all around me during the time I was photographing' Chris Killip, 2019 Grounded in sustained immersion and participation in the communities he photographed, Chris Killip's keenly observed work chronicled ordinary people's lives in stark, yet sympathetic, detail.In Flagrante is a dark, pessimistic journey, perhaps even a secret odyssey, where rigorous documentary is suffused with a contemplative inwardness, a rare quality in modern photography. The Station was not merely a music and rehearsal space, but a crucible for the self-expression of the sub-cultures and punk politics of the time. He is best known for his black and white images of people and places, especially in the North East of England in the 1970s and 1980s. Erschien ein Jahr nach und in einer sehr viel kleineren Auflage (von nur 1000 Exemplaren) als die englische Original-Ausgabe (Martin Secker und Warburg, London, 1988).

The title, "In Flagrante," suggests a sense of capturing these communities and individuals in the midst of their struggles.Late in 2016 Chris Killip’s son serendipitously discovered a box of contact sheets of the photos his father had made at The Station, an anarcho-punk music venue in Gateshead open from 1981 to 1985. 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. As the son of English pub owners, Killip grew up in economic circumstances entirely lacking in artifice or pretension. Grounded in sustained immersion and participation in the communities he photographed, Chris Killip’s keenly observed work chronicled ordinary people’s lives in stark, yet sympathetic, detail. 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'.