Chris Killip: Skinningrove

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Chris Killip is widely regarded as one of the most influential British photographers. Skinningrove fishermen believed that the sea in front of them was their private territory, theirs alone. A collection of large format paperback zines of four bodies of work by the late Chris Killip; Skinningrove, the Station, Portraits and The Last Ship in a signed and numbered slipcased edition of 250. The catalogue for the exhibition 20/20: Chris Killip / Graham Smith at Augusta Edwards Fine Art 12 October-06 November 2022.   My greatest ally in gaining acceptance was Leso (Leslie Holliday), the most outgoing of the younger fisherman. A close and lifelong friendship followed and in 1985 they created their seminal exhibition, ‘Another Country’. The Station - 34 images on 32 pagesThe Last Ships - 25 images on 28 pages of Killip's shipbuilding photographs from Tyneside. Hidden in a steep valley it veers away from the main road and faces out onto the North Sea. In 1994 he was made a tenured professor at Harvard University and was department chair from 1994-98.