Christopher David Killip (11 July 1946 – 13 October 2020) was a Manx photographer who worked at Harvard University from 1991 to 2017, as a Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies. Killip is known for his black and white images of people and places especially of Tyneside during the 1980s. Killip received the (for In Flagrante) and was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. He exhibited all over the world, wrote extensively, appeared on radio and television, and curated many exhibitions.
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Coal-gathering labor in Lynemouth, a coastal village in North East England, amid early 1980s working-class resilience and industrial decline.
Traditional Manx rural community life on the Isle of Man before economic transition toward offshore finance and commercial development.
Books
Seacoal
(Steidl, 2011)
In Flagrante Two
(Steidl, 2016)
In Flagrante
(Secker & Warburg, 1988)
Chris Killip
(Thames & Hudson, 2023)
Chris Killip
(Phaidon, 2001)
Chris Killip
(Tate Publishing, 2023)
Isle of Man Revisited
(Steidl, 2015)