Chris Killip: Retrospective for influential British photographer

Chris Killip: Retrospective for influential British photographer

11 OCTOBER 2022



A retrospective of work by one of the UK's most important and influential post-War photographers, Chris Killip, has opened in London.


Killip was best known for documenting the lives of working-class people in post-industrial north-east England, marginalised communities and disappearing ways of life.

IMAGE SOURCE,CHRIS KILLIP

Image caption,

Girls Playing in the street, Wallsend, Tyneside,1976

Born on the Isle of Man, in 1946, Killip became a beach photographer in 1964, before working as an assistant in Chelsea.

In the late 1970s, he co-founded Newcastle-upon-Tyne's Side Gallery, dedicated to photography.