Obituary: Chris Killip, photographer who captured gritty reality of working-class life in the north
Died: October 13, 2020. CHRIS Killip, who has died aged 74, was a pioneering documentary photographer, whose depictions of working-class communities in the north of England during the 1970s and 1980s captured a part of British society in the process of being marginalised or wiped out completely. Taken in vivid black and white, Killip’s images were a crucial counterpoint to the Thatcherite claim that there was no such thing as society. Images of the Tyneside shipyards captured great hulk...
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