Chris Killip: 1946-2020

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His boundless curiosity and empathy drew him toward groups and places otherwise overlooked, where he venerated them with his camera. For me Skinningrove’s sense of purpose was bound up in its collective obsession with the sea. Chris Killip (19462020) was one of the most influential British photographers of his generation. The impact of these images is both immediate and enduring, creating one of the most authoritative and intense bodies of work produced this decade. This volume focuses on Killip's remarkable Seacoal and Skinningrove series, documenting communities living in the region's declining industrial landscape, and where, in the words he used to describe the Seacoal beach, 'the Middle Ages and the twentieth-century intertwined. The Station - 34 images on 32 pagesThe Last Ships - 25 images on 28 pages of Killip's shipbuilding photographs from Tyneside. The village of Skinningrove lies on the North-East coast of England, hidden in a steep valley it veers away from the main road and faces out onto the North Sea. Skinningrove fishermen believed that the sea in front of them was their private territory, theirs alone. “Like a lot of tight-knit fishing communities, it could be hostile to strangers, especially one with a camera.