
11/07/2025
“The moment you make a photograph you consign whatever you photograph to the past as that specific moment no longer exists, it is history. The photography that I practice takes place in a specific time and place, depicting real moments in people's lives.”
Chris Killip is one of the most influential British photographers of his generation and best known for his work documenting the working classes in the North of England throughout the 1970s and 1980s. His landmark publication “In Flagrante,” published in 1988 and reissued by Steidl in 2016, has been hailed as a masterpiece of photojournalism for its depiction of Northern communities working their way through the changing landscape of Thatcher's Britain. Chris would have turned 79 today. Happy birthday to a great photographer and a wonderful person.
Image: Critch in the water, Lynemouth from “Seacoal”