Chris Killip

Chris Killip is a photographer who reminds me slightly of George Shaw. I know him best for his industrial portraits and I believe this is where the similarities lie.
Killip created the photo series In Flagrante.

The thing that separates Killip and Shaw is Killip's use of the human form, to compliment his industry in an oddly successful juxtaposition.
The use of young children using the estates as playgrounds, contrasted with the serious adult workers creates much more contrast, which again, only heightens the significance of the series.

"You didn't have to be a genius to realise how important it was to get in and photograph it before it all fell apart." Killip allows us to understand the fragility of both the location and the community with this statement, and his photographs only prove this further.
The images are beautiful in strange and perplexing ways. It should be discomforting to see the breakdown of a person *, but the vulnerability that Killip is able to capture makes this beauty.

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It is certainly intersting to see how Killip captured people in the most appropriate landscape that was able to bring together every quality and characteristic of the location he selected and this is something very important to look to in my own project.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/11145782/Chris-Killip-In-Flagrante.html?frame=3064309