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In the short film, Skinningrove, 2013, Chris Killip tells personal stories about the people in his photographs. A detailed descriptive text of the artworks in this exhibition can be downloaded to your own device below.In 1971, Lee Witkin, a New York gallery owner, commissioned a limited edition portfolio of Killip’s Isle of Man photographs.

Baltic presents a full career retrospective by one of the UK’s most important and influential post-war documentary photographers, Chris Killip (1946–2020). In a portrait titled Simon Being Taken to Sea for the First Time Since His Father Drowned, Skinningrove, 1983, a young boy sits disconsolately on the prow of a small fishing boat, head bowed, deep in thought. Killip sees his photography as a kind of “people’s history”, and tells a great story to illustrate it, which starts with visiting an American friend. With 50 black and white photographs: a view of Britain in the eighties reflecting the stark reality of industrial society in decline.Chris Killip is widely regarded as one of the most influential British photographers of his generation. The intimacy of many of Killip’s portraits relied on his use of a 5x4 camera, sometimes using flash in daylight, which enabled him to capture his subjects in often revealing detail, whether their weatherbeaten faces or well-worn clothes. He was a gifted and passionate teacher,” said Robb Moss, Harvard College Professor and current chair of the AFVS department.