1. CESCA HAIG
Unit 57: Photography and Photographic
Practice
Research of other photographers work
2. Chris Killip
Chris Killip was born 11 July 1946 in Douglas, Isle of Man and in 1964 moved to London
where he worked as an assistant to the advertising photographer Adrian Flowers. In
1969 he stopped his commercial work to concentrate on the photography that he wanted
to do. In 1969 he moved back to the Isle of Man, photographing it extensively.
In 1974 he was commissioned to photograph Bury St Edmunds and Huddersfield, and in
1975 he won a two-year fellowship from Northern Arts to photograph the northeast of
England; Creative Camera devoted its entire May 1977 issue to this work.
In 1988 Killip was commissioned by Pirelli U.K. which thought that he might photograph
its tire factory in Burton; agreement on this was reached in April the next year,
whereupon Killip started work.
From 1992 until 2004, Killip photographed pilgrimages and other scenes in rural
Ireland; the result was published in 2009 by Thames & Hudson as Here Comes
Everybody.
Killip is the recipient of numerous awards, including the second Henri Cartier-Bresson
Award (for In Flagrante). He has exhibited all over the world, written extensively,
appeared on radio and television, and has curated many exhibitions
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4. This photo was taken in 1980, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. It is called Father and Son.
The picture was published in a book called In Flagrante, the book was a series of
photographs showing the communities in Northern England that were devastated by the
deindustrialisation common to policies carried out by Thatcher and her predecessors starting
in the mid-1970s.
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6. When Chris Killip photographs people he is trying to show the hardships that they
have been through or are going through. He photographs in mainly black and
white, which is effective in what he is trying to show because it causes no
distractions and people really look at the subject of the image.
The subjects that Killip have photographed are not usually posed majorly, they
seem to be doing different activities or look as though Killip has taken the photo as
a passer by rather than making them pose for a picture, this makes the images
seem more real and make a viewer want to know more about the subjects of the
images as they aren’t smiling or posing at the camera, you can tell more about a
person when they aren’t posed or putting on an act for the camera.
Killip uses lighting well as the faces of his subjects are always more visible than the
rest of them, making is clear that he wants you to see the expressions of their faces.
With my photo shoot for my magazine I will be using black and white photography
because I like the way that you seem to concentrate more on the subject of the
image.
