Seacoal

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Territories of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and xwməθkwəýəm (Musqueam) Nations Living, on and off, in a caravan on Lynemouth’s Seacoal camp from 1982 to 1984, Killip immersed himself in their struggles to survive. ” Chris Killip began photographing the people of Lynemouth seacoal beach in the north east of England in 1982, afternnearly seven years of failed efforts to obtain their consent. nThe place confounded time; here the Middle Ages and the twentieth century intertwined. “When I first saw the beach at Lynemouth in January 1976, I recognized the industry above it but nothing else I wasnseeing. Killip first attempted to photograph Seacoal Beach in Lynemouth, Northumberland, England, in 1976, but it took him six years to gain the trust of the people who worked there.

• English
• Hardback / Clothbound
• 27 x 23 cm
• 114 pages