Chris Killip

born 1946

Chris Killip, ‘People queuing outside of bakery during flour shortage (‘the bread strike’)’ 1977, printed 2010
People queuing outside of bakery during flour shortage (‘the bread strike’) 1977, printed 2010
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Biography

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 Henri Cartier-Bresson Award (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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