Chris Killip

19 Centre St #2, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA [email protected]

1946 Born Douglas, Isle of Man, Great Britain 1964 Moves to London and becomes assistant to the photographer, Adrian Flowers 1965-69 Freelance Assistant to various photographers, London 1969-72 Photographed in the Isle of Man 1972- Photographed in England 1975 Moved base to Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1976-84 Founder member and exhibition curator and advisor, Side Gallery, Newcastle- Upon-Tyne, England 1977-79 Director, Side Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne 1980-91 Photographed mainly in North-East of England 1988 Commissioned by Pirelli to photograph their tire factory 1991-93 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 1994-98 Professor, Chairman, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Director, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, 1998-2017 Professor, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University SELECTED AWARDS 1973-74 Arts Council of Great Britain Photography Award 1975-76 Northern Arts Photography Fellowship 1977 Arts Council of Great Britain Major Bursary Award 1989 Henri Cartier-Bresson Award, Paris 2013 Sundance Film Festival, The Short Non-Fiction Film Award for Skinningrove

PUBLICATIONS Isle of Man, text, John Berger, London: Zwemmer/AC of GB, 1980 In Flagrante, text, John Berger & Sylvia Grant, London: Secker & Warburg, 1988 French edition, Vague à L’âme, Editions Nathan, 1988 Chris Killip, text Gerry Badger, Phaidon 55 series 2001, also French and German editions Pirelli Work, text Clive Dilnot, Steidl, Gottingen, Germany 2006 In Flagrante – A Case Study Essay by Gerry Badger, Errata Editions/ DAP, New York, 2009 Here Comes Everybody, Photographs and text. Chris Killip, Thames & Hudson, 2009 Seacoal, Photographs and text, Chris Killip, Steidl, 2011 Arbeit/Work, text, David Campany & Ute Eskildsen, Stiedl/Folkwang, 2012 Isle of Man Revisited Photographs and text, Chris Killip, Steidl, 2015 In Flagrante Two, Photographs Chris Killip, Steidl, 2016 Askam in Furness 1982, Photographs Chris Killip, Café Royal Books, UK 2017 Isle of Man TT Races 1971, Photographs, Chris Killip, Cafe Royal Books, UK 2018 The Station, A 32 page newsprint publication, Pony Design, London 2018 The Last Ships. A 28-page newsprint publication, Pony Design, London 2018 Skinningrove. A 32-page newsprint publication, Pony Design, London 2018 Portraits. A 32-page newsprint publication, Pony Design, London 2018

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Huddersfield, 1974, Photographs by Chris Killip, Cafe Royal Books, 2019

OTHER PHOTOGRAPHIC PUBLICATIONS

Isle of Man, 12 Chris Killip Photographs, Edition of 25, Witkin/Berley, New York, 1973 Chris Killip 1975-76, Creative Camera, May 1977 The complete issue, editor, P Turner Chris Killip, Mills & Milling, An edition of 8 stamps, Isle of Man Postal Authority, 2009

SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

1973 "Two Views - Two Cities", Huddersfield City Art Gallery; and Bury St. Edmunds Art Gallery, England; and tour of Great Britain

1977 "North-East of England", Side Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne; and tour.

1980 "Isle of Man", Side Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne; tour of G. B. 1980-1982

1983 "Askam and Skinningrove", Side Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne; and tour.

1984 "Seacoal", Side Gallery, Newcastle-upon -Tyne, and tour Northern Arts region "Chris Killip", Photo Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

1985-87 "Another Country" (with Graham Smith), Serpentine Gallery, London Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol; National Museum of Photography, Bradford; Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

1986 "Chris Killip", Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

1988 "On The Edge Of The City" (with the painter Ken Currie), Manchester City Art Gallery, England

1988-90 "In Flagrante", Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Landes Museum, Munster; Atrium Museum, Aachen; Museum für Künst und Külturgeschede, Dörtmund; Alter Rathaussaal, Münich ;Centrum für Industrie- Kültur, Nüremberg; Landesbildstelle, Stüttgart, West Germany; Museum Het Princessehof, Leeuwarden, Holland; Musée de Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium;Baierd Art Gallery, Breda, Holland; I.V.A.M., Valencia, Spain

1989 "Chris Killip", Fotografiska Museet i Moderna Museet, Stockholm

1990 "Working at Pirelli", Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England

1991 "Chris Killip Retrospective", Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

1996 “Scenes from Another Country” Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand “The Last Art Show”, Bede Gallery, Jarrow, England

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1997 “Chris Killip, Photographs, 1971-1996”, Manx Museum, Douglas, Isle of Man

2000 “Chris Killip, 60 Photographs”, The Old Post Office, Berlin, Germany

2004 “15 Photographs” Rencontres d’Arles, France

2009 “Here Comes Everybody”, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland

2010 “Four & Twenty Photographs” Amador Gallery, New York & Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston

2011 Seacoal, Museum for Photography, Braunschweig, Germany. GwinZegal, Center for the Arts, Brittany, France. PhotForum PasquArt, Beil-Bienne, Switzerland (2012)

2012 Arbeit/Work A Retrospective exhibition of Chris Killip’s work, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany. Curated by Ute Eskildsen

What Happened- Great Britain 1970-90, LE BAL, Paris, France

2013/14 Arbeit/Work, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Oct 1 – Feb 20 2014

2014 Chris Killip - 75 Photographs, Tate Britain, April 21- September 18 2014

2015 Close Distance, Gallery Focus 21, Zurich, Switzerland Nov 5- Dec 24

2016 In Flagrante Two, Yossi Milo Gallery,New York, Jan 28-Feb 27

Isle of Man Revisited, Manx Museum, IOM May 6 – July 27

2017 Now-Then, J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angles, May 23 - Aug 13

2018 The Last Ships, Laing Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, Sept 3- May 24 2020

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

The Museum of Modern Art, New York International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House Center Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin Museum of Fine Art, Houston San Francisco Museum of Fine Art, San Francisco Museum of Fine Art, Boston J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angles University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 3

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The Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal Krannert Art Museum, Champagne, IL Kalamazo Institute of Art, Albertina Palace Museum, Vienna, Austria Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland I.V.A.M., Valencia, Spain Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweeden Arbetets Museum, Norrkoping, Sweden Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain Victoria and Albert Museum, London Arts Council of Great Britain, London The British Council, London Tate Gallery Collection, London Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester Laing Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne National Museum of Photography, Bradford Wilson Center for Photography, London

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY- BOOKS, ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS

1 Selected articles by Chris Killip

Lewis Hine 1874-1940, Newcastle, Side Gallery, for the Arts Council of Great Britain, 1976 “Sir Roy Strong, Director of the V & A, Interviewed” Creative Camera, October 1981, pp. 266-268. “Robert Doisneau: La Stricte intimité,” and “Danny Lyons: Uptown Chicago,” in Personal Choice: A Celebration of Twentieth Century Photographs Selected and Introduced by Photographers, Painters and Writers, Ed Mark Haworth-Booth, London, Victoria Albert Museum, 1983 "Robert Frank’s “New York to Nova Scotia”," Book Review, Creative Camera, No. 1, 1987. "Photography Now,"Camera Austria, No. 9, 1989. Marketá Luskacová: Photographs of Spitalfields, catalog essay, London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1991. “Object of Desire”, Essay on Henri Cartier-Bresson, V & A Magazine, London, 1998“A Photographers Life” Essay on David Goldblatt, Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, 2001. “T V Society: The Photographs of Vincent Goutal.” Harvard Photography Journal, 2001 “Walker Evans” Review of the book, Walker Evans, Metropolitan Museum, N.Y. 2001, Times Higher Educational Supplement, May 17 2002. “Boris Mikhailov: Case History””, Tate Etc, Summer, London 2008 “A Shimmer of Possibility” A review of the Paul Graham exhibition at MoMA, NY, for 8-10 Magazine, London, May 2009 Three Photographs, Frieze Magazine London, November Issue 2011 4

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Early One Morning, Essay on Anthony Caro Sculpture, Tate etc Magazine, summer 2014 Greg Halpern, Killip Essay on Halpern, Light Works Annual 2015 The Intimacy of Distance, Killip Essay on Birte Kaufmann for her book The Travellers, 2016

2. Photographic essays “Chris Killip,” Camera, Zurich Switzerland, January 1971, No. 1, pp. 14-20. “Chris Killip on the Isle of Man” (text Shoji Yamagishi), Camera Mainichi ‘71, Tokyo, Japan, Number 11, pp. 41-47. “Chris Killip: T.T. Week Visitors,” Creative Camera, January 1972, Number 91, pp. 458-463. “Faces of Man,” photographs C. Killip, text Frank Kermode, Observer Magazine, London, Sunday July 1, 1979, pp. 32-37. “Chris Killip: Här Finns Mina Rötter,” text Peter Turner, Aktuell Fotografi, nr. 11, Helsingborg, Sweden, 1980, pp. 42-49 “Die Verlorene Notwendigkeit,” “Lieber Vetter Stanley,” Chris Killip (translated Katrin Reinhart), Tages Anzeiger Magazin, Zurich, Nr. 6, 7 Februar 1981, pp. 20-25. “One Man’s Island” text Nigel Skelsey, SLR Camera, December 1981, Haymarket Publications, London, pp. 33-37. Photographs by C. Killip, text Mark Haworth-Booth, Camera Austria, Graz, Austria, 1983, Issue 11/12. Chris Killip,” photographs, text Paul Higgins, Camera and Creative Photography, London, January 1985., pp. 10-17. “When the Coal Comes In,” photographs, text Polly Pattullo, Observer Magazine, April 13, 1986, pp. 28-33. “The Seacoalers,” photographs C. Killip, text John Morrison, 35 mm Photography, August 1986, pp. 24-29. “Königreich: Chris Killip,” Camera Austria, 1988, issue 25, pp. 23, 39-41. “Killip,” photographs, text John Morrison, Photography, May 1988, pp. 14-23. “Chris Killip: Itse Teossa” text Petri Nuutinen,Valokuva Magazine, Helsinki, Finland, February 1989, pp. 20-27. “Ihr da Unten,” photographs C. Killip, text John Berger and Sylvia Grant, translated by Martin Hielscher, Zeit Magazin, Nr. 41, 6 Oktober 1989, pp. 26-37 “Factory Art” photographs C. Killip, text Paul Barker, Independent Magazine, London, December 16, 1989, pp. 64-70. “Levande Män!” photographs C. Killip, Prat Magazine, Stockholm, Sweden, 1990, pp. 23-27. “Machine Age” photographs C. Killip, text Andreas Berner, The Manipulator, Dusseldörf and New York, September 1991, 10 photographs. “Postcards from Ireland, 1999,” Harvard Photography Journal, 2000 “Still Lives’, Independent Magazine, March 17 2011 Arbeit/Work, Interview with Killip, P51-64, Aperture Magazine Issue 208, 2012 Chris Killip: The Last Photographer of the Working Class, p15-18, Afterimage, NY June 2012 The Gleaners, By Clive Dilnot. New Left Review, October 2012

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3 Critical References in Books and Exhibition Catalogs

Creative Camera International Year Book 1975, “Chris Killip: Isle of Man Portfolio,” editors Colin Osman and Peter Turner, pp. 124-135, Coo Press: London; Light Impressions: USA. British Image 2, “Chris Killip: Northern England,” Arts Council of Great Britain, London, England, 1976, pp. 81-92, Concerning Photography, ed. Jonathan Bayer, Zwemmer, London, 1977 Exploring Photography, “Urban Landscape,” ed. Bryn Campbell, British Broadcasting Corporation: London, England, 1978, pp. 120-121. About 70 Photographs, “The Abbey, Bury St. Edmunds,” editors Chris Steele-Perkins and William Messer, Arts Council of Great Britain: London, 1980, pp.116-117 Old and Modern Masters of Photography, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1981, p. 59. Photography: A Concise History, Ian Jeffrey, Thames and Hudson: London, 1981, pp.232-234. Photography Annual 1986, “Chris Killip,” New York: USA, pp. 128-135. Masters of Photography, Exeter Books, Daniella Mrazakova, 1987. Ausbeute: Bergbau und Bergarbeit in der Fotografie, “Chris Killip,” editors Ulhrich Borsdorf und Rolf Kania, Ruhrlandmuseum: Essen, Germany 1989, pp. 64-65. Photo Texts, “We Are Making A New World: Chris Killip ‘In Flagrante’” by Gerry Badger, ed. Peter Turner & Gerry Badger, Travelling Light: London 1988, pp. 142-147. Photography Until Now, ed. John Szarkowski, The Museum of Modern Art: NY 1989, p. 289. The Art of Photography 1839-1989, Royal Academy of Arts: London 1989, Yale University Press, Photographs No. 391-396. Through the Looking Glass: Photographic Art in Britain 1945-1989, Barbican Art Gallery: London 1989, pp. 60-61, 132. (photographs) Photography:150 Years, The Australian National Gallery, Canberra 1989, p. 69 British Photography From The Thatcher Years, ed.Susan Kismaric, The Museum of Modern Art: New York 1990, p. 11 (text Kismaric), pp. 18-23 (photographs) Arbetets Värld, Arbetets Museum: Norrköping, Sweden 1991, pp. 118-119 Documentary Dilemmas, British Councils, 1993 Chris Killip, Hermes Magazine, Japan, November 1996 Chris Killip, Luna Cornea, No. 9, Mexico City, 1996 Investigating Modern Art, ed. C. Dawtry, Yale University Press, 1996 Photography, An Independent Art, Mark Haworth-Booth, V & A, London, 1997 Photography, A Critical Introduction, ed. Liz Wells, Routledge, London, 1997 The Photography Book, Phaidon Press, London, 1997 The Photograph, Graham Clark, Oxford University Press, London, 1997 A New History of Photography, ed. Frizot, Konemann, Paris, 1998 Photography and Language, Clive Scott, Reaktion Books, London, 1999 Modern Contemporary, Art at MOMA Since 1980, MOMA, NY 2000 La Photographie Contemporaine, Gattinoni and Vigouroux, Editions Scala, Paris, 2002 Making History, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, 2006 In The Face of History, Barbican Gallery, London, 2006 How we Are, Tate Britain, 2007 Parr World, Haus der Kunst, Munich 2008 No Such Thing as Society, Hayward Publishing, London 2008 6

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Street and Studio, Tate Modern, London 2008 A History of British Art, Vol 3. Tate Publications, London 2008 Afterimage, Rochester, N.Y. May/June issue. Chris Killip: The Last Photographer of the Working Class New Left Review, The Gleaners, Clive Dilnot Aperture Magazine, issue no 208, Fall 2012, pages 54-61 Photography the Whole Story, Prestel November 2012 Photography at MoMA, 1960 to Now Pub, MoMA, NY 2015 The Documentary Impulse Phaidon Press London 2015

4. Critical Articles “Chris Killip Young Contemporary,” Creative Camera, London, England, February 1970, issue 68, pp. 60-61 “Chris Killip Photographs 1975-1976 in the North East,” Creative Camera, London, England, May 1977, Number 155, entire issue. “Zkoumání zivota a Chris Killip,” text Daniela Mrázková,Ceskoslovenska Fotografie, issue 11, 1980, pp. 486-487. “Closely Observed Photographs: Chris Killip and Marketá Luskacová” text Mark Haworth- Booth, Creative Camera, March 1983, no. 219, pp. 883-885 “Chris Killip: Scenes from Another Country” text Mark Haworth-Booth, Aperture, Nr. 103, Summer 1986, pp. 16-31. “Skin-heads of Newcastle,” photographs C. Killip, Transaction Society, vol. 24 no. 25, Rutgers University, NJ, July 1987, pp. 84-86. “Chris Killip: Interviewed by David Lee,” Creative Camera, Nr. 5, May 1988, pp. 10-12. “Where We’ve Come From: Aspects of Postwar British Photography,” Mark Haworth-Booth, Aperture, No. 113, Winter 1988, pp. 8. “Real Beauty,” Liz Heron, Aperture, No. 113, Winter 1988, pp. 74-75 "Chris Killip,” Sue Davis, Camera International, , No.9, Paris Spring 1986, pp.40-49. “Head to Head: Chris Killip and Bert Hardy,” interviewed by Terry Hope, Amatuer Photographer, June 30 1990, pp. 51-53. “Part of the Family: Talking with Chris Killip,” photographs C. Killip, text Christopher Lyon, MOMA Members Quarterly, Winter 1991, pp. 10-13. “Le profil mort de notre imperfection,” La Recherche Photographique: L’Ombre, Nr. 11, Décembre 1991, pp. 98-99 (photographs) “Great Britain,” La Recherche Photographique: Europe 1970-1990, No. 13, Autumn 1992, pp. 44 (photograph) "Chris Killip," text Mark Haworth-Booth, British Journal of Photography, February 17, 1994 "Martin Parr on Chris Killip," The Guardian, July 25, 1995 "Chris Killip," David Lee, Art Review, pp. 56-59, March 1996 “Photosynthesis”, The Independent Magazine, London, May 1998 “Exposed”, Tate Magazine, London, 1998 “Made in England”Martin Parr on Chris Killip, Photo District News, New York, august 2002 “Killip L’intransigeant” Michel guerrin, Le Monde, July 12 2002 Killip Arles exhibition reviews: UK: The Observer, 7/18/04, The Guardian, 7/14/04 France: Liberation, 7/8/04, L’Humanite, 7/17/04 Best of British, interview by Diana Smyth, page 19-23, British Journal of Photography, November 2006 In The Face of History, Joanna Pitman, The Times, October 11 2006 7

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Different Views, Blake Morrison, The Guardian, October 21 2006

5. Selected Book Reviews Chris Killip, Isle of Man: A Book About the Manx Peter Campbell, London Review of Books , July 3, 1980. Mark Haworth-Booth “Arresting Time,” London Magazine, July 1980. Ian Jeffrey, Creative Camera, Nr. 195, March 1981. Sarah Kent, Arts Review, Time Out, London, 16 May 1980 Frank Kermode, “The Men From Man,” The Listener, London, May 1980. Chris Killip, In Flagrante Paul Barker, “Pity the Losers” Sunday Telegraph, March 27, 1988. Bruce Bernard, Spectator, March 26, 1988. Peter Carey, Sunday Times, March 20, 1988. Ian Jack, “The Best and Worst of 1988,” New Statesman, December 23, 1988. Waldemar Januszczak, The Guardian, March 25, 1988. Sarah Kent, Time Out, March 18, 1988. Karl Miller, London Review of Books, March 3, 1988. Blake Morrison, “Killip’s Diary,” Observer Magazine, London, March 13, 1988. Jeremy Seabrook, “The Privatized Pain”, New Society, March 25, 1988.

6. Selected Reviews of One-Man exhibitions "Isle of Man" Caroline Tisdall, The Guardian, June 17, 1980. William Varley, The Guardian, March 18, 1980. "Askam and Skinningrove" Rob Powell, Creative Camera, March 1983 Continued.. "Another Country" Bruce Bernard, “Tyne Tees Vision,” The Spectator, September 14, 1985. William Bishop, “Another Country Reviewed,” The British Journal of Photography, September 20, 1985. Richard Cork, “Another England,” The Listener, September 12, 1985. William Feaver, “Northern Photographs,” Observer, September 8, 1985. Dave Lee, “Photography,” Arts Review, September 15, 1985 Ian Jeffrey, “Another Country at the Serpentine,” Creative Camera, No. 251, November 1985. Karl Miller, London Review of Books, September 15, 1985. William Packer, “The Age of Discardment,”The Financial Times, September 19, 1985. "In Flagrante" Philip Core, “The Snapping Point,” The Independent, April 13, 1988. Liz Heron, “Tale of Two Nations,” New Statesman, April 29, 1988. David Lee, Photography Review, Arts Review, March 25, 1988. Jane Richards, ”Living Debris on the Northern Landscape,” The Independent, March 15, 1988. Jeffrey Richards, “Bleak Views,” Daily Telegraph, March 28, 1988. John Russell Taylor, “Images Without A Vision,” The Times, April 5, 1988. Marina Vaizey, “Exposing the Image Behind A Cliché,” The Sunday Times, April 10, 1988. 8

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Pirelli Work Janet Abrams, “Making Light Work,” The Independent, December 29, 1989. David Lee, “Photography,” Arts Review, January 1990. William Packer, Financial Times, January 6, 1990, p. xvi Seacoal Liberation, Paris June 30 Le Monde, Paris, July 22

2012 , Articles on Arbeit/Work:

The Independent Magazine, The Independent Newspaper, London, feature on Arbeit/Work, March 17 2012, pages 56-68

Aperture Magazine, New York, Fall, Issue 208, featured Chris Killip’s Arbeit/Work together with an interview by Michael Almereyda, pages 51-64

Afterimage Magazine, Rochester, NY, May/ June issue. Essay by Clive Dilnot titled: ‘Chris Killip: The Last Photographer of the Working Class.’ pages 15-18 Reviews: Numerous reviews of the 2012 one person exhibitions in a variety of European newspapers & magazines.

German reviews include: NRZ Essen , April 5. VDI Nachrichten, March 23 . TAZ Die Tageszeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine, February 20. WAZ February 11 Westfalische Rundschau, February 11. Ruhr Nachrichten, February 8 Emsdettener Volkszeitung, February 7. Recklinghauser Zeitung, February 4 Westfalischer Anzeiger, February 4 Westdeutsche Allegmeine, February 13.

French reviews include: Le Monde, June 2. L’Humanitie, June 5. Telerama, June 2. A Nous Paris, May 21. Obsession, May 24. Derniere Nouvelle D’Alsac, May 26. Madame, June 15. OBS Tele Cine, June 12. Liberation, June 29. Le Monde, July 30. Radio: France Culture, Live studio interview for, Le Grande Table, broadcast May 10

France Culture, interview with, Amaury Chardeau, in his series on contemporary photography, broadcast July 26,

7. Selected Television and Radio Programs HTV-Bristol, History of Photography Series “Contemporary Work: Chris Killip,” 15 minutes, March 1980. TV, BBC-1, series Exploring Photography “Urban Landscape: Chris Killip” produced by Peter Riding, 15 minutes, November 1987. BBC Radio 3, “Third Ear,” Chris Killip interviewed by Julian Spalding, 25 minutes, January 1988. TV, BBC-2, The Book Program, Jill Nelville interviews Chris Killip about In Flagrante, March 1988 TV, FR-3, Magazine Ram Dam, réalisation J.C. Murracciole, 5 minutes, October 1991.

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RTL Radio, Magazine culturel de Jean-Pierre Tison, sujet sur Chris Killip, 30 minutes, October 1991 TV, BBC-1, series The Byker Art Show, presenter Muriel Gray discusses Chris Killip’s photograph ‘Youth on Wall,’ July 15 and 18, 1993. TV, BBC-1, "The Punter's Art Show," November 1995 TV, BBC_1 “The Genius of Photography” 2007 Radio-France Culture. Live in-studio interview for Le Grande Table, broadcasted May 10, 201 Radio-France Culture, Live interview with Amaury Chardeau for his series on contemporary photography, broadcasted July 26, 2012

Film: Skinningrove, a fifteen minute film made at Harvard University by Michael Almereyda of Chris Killip talking in his classroom about his photographs of Skinningrove, a fishing village in the North-East of England. USA: The film Skinningrove won the best short documentary award at Sundance Film Festival in January 2013. At the Ann Arbor Film Festival in March 2013 it was awarded the prize for the best documentary film. It was shown at the BAM-Cinefest, in Brooklyn, NY. Vienna Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival

EXHIBITIONS CURATED At the Side Gallery, Newcastle Upon-Tyne, England

1977 Lewis Hine: Curator August Sander: Curator 1978 Thomas Annan: Curator England Past; Humphrey Spender, Bert Hardy, George Rodgers, Thurston Hopkins: Curator Russian War Photographs: Co-Curator E.J. Bellocq: Curator Photographs from the Beaches: S. L. Konttinen & Marketá Luskacová: Curator 1979 Work and Unemployment: Robert Golden & Nick Hedges: Co-Curator The Teds: Chris Steel-Perkins: Co-Curator Juvenile Jazz Bands: Trish Murtha: Curator Photographs from Peru: Martin Chambi: Curator Newcastle Quayside: S.L Konttinen & G. Smith: Co-Curator Martine Frank: Curator James Cleet: Co-Curator 1980 Weegee: Co-Curator 1981 Don McCullin: Co-Curator Youth Unemployment: Trish Murtha: Curator Robert Doisneau: Curator 10

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China: Mark Riboud: Curator 1982 Nicaragua: Susan Meisalas: Curator Survival Programs in Britains Inner Cities: Exit Photography Group: Co-Curator Consett Steel: G. Smith: Co-Curator

CHRIS KILLIP’S STATEMENT ABOUT HIS WORK

One night in 1994 my American friend John Clifford, who owned the best bar in Cambridge, took me into the center of Boston to where the civic center and other administrative buildings now stand. These buildings were built in the 1960’s on top of the old tough working class district of Scollay Square, where John and his brothers were born and raised.

John pointed out to me streets that no longer existed, telling me who had lived where and in which house. Who had died in Vietnam, who had worked for the mob, who had gone to prison or ended up in politics. When I interrupted this narrative to tell him how great it was that he was telling me the history of this place he spun around, gripped me by the throat and pushed me against the wall. With his raised fist clenched he said, “ I don’t know nothing about no fucking history, I’m just telling you what happened”

EXHIBITIONS CURATED At the Side Gallery, Newcastle Upon-Tyne, England

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1981 Don McCullin: Co-Curator Youth Unemployment: Trish Murtha: Curator Robert Doisneau: Curator China: Mark Riboud: Curator 1982 Nicaragua: Susan Meisalas: Curator Survival Programs in Britains Inner Cities: Exit Photography Group: Co-Curator Consett Steel: G. Smith: Co-Curator 1983 Northern Ireland & Iran: Gilles Peress: Co-Curator 1984 South Bank: G. Smith: Co-Curator 1985 Another Country: Serpentine Gallery, London 1989 Chris Killip’s Selection, Victoria & Albert Museum. London

SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHIC COMMISSIONS 1972 Commissioned by Arts Council of Great Britain to Photograph two cities for the exhibition “Two Views - Two Cities.” 1980-87 Commissioned by London Review of Books, Cover Portraits include: Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Harold Hancock, Tony Harrison, James Kelman, Frank Kermode, Julia O’Faolain, Philip Roth, and E.P. Thompson. 1989 Pirelli Ltd. Photographic exhibition on their workforce. 1991-92 Clifford, Chance & Co., Solicitors. Photographic recording of the building of their new corporate headquarters, The Barbican, London. 1996 Commissioned by Bede Gallery to photograph Jarrow, England

VISITING LECTURER AND/OR EXTERNAL ASSESSOR, 1990- Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Northeastern University, Boston, MA School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA Yale University, New Haven, CT Halifax School of Art, Halifax, Nova Scotia Fotohogskolan, Gotenborg University, Sweden Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Photo-School, Stockholm, Sweden University of Helsinki, Finland West Surrey College of Art & Design, England University of Wales College, Newport Stamford University, CA Colby College, Maine

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 1991-

Awards Roslyn Abramson Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1996

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Membership of University Committees

Office of Admissions Selection Review Committee for Harvard College, 1994-95 Faculty Council, Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Science, 1994-95 Committee on Undergraduate Education, 1994-95 Advisory Board, Office for the Arts, 1994-96 Selection Committee, Bunting Institute Visual Fellowships, 1993-96 Search Committee for Curator of Photography, Fogg Museum, 1995-96 Advisory Board, Office for the Arts, 2000-4 Search Committee for Director, Office for the Arts, 2001

Director, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 1994-98 Chairman, Visual and Environmental Studies Department, 1994-98

Chair, Search Committees for Senior Appointments Chair, Appointments Committee Chair, Curricular Development Committee Chair, Honors Board Committee

Professor, Head of the Photography Program in Visual and Environmental Studies, 1998-

Committee Member: Senior Appointments, Appointments, Curricular Development, Honors Board, Studio Faculty.

Head of Photography Program in Visual and Environmental Studies, 1991 -

Chris Killip Biography

Born in Douglas Isle of Man in 1946 he left school at age sixteen and joined the only four star hotel on the Isle of Man as a trainee hotel manager. In June 1964 he decided to pursue photography full time and became a beach photographer in order to earn enough money to leave the Isle of Man. In October 1964 he was hired as the third assistant to the leading London advertising photographer Adrian Flowers. He then worked as a freelance assistant to various photographers in London from 1966-69. In 1969, after seeing his very first exhibition of photography, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, he decided to return to photograph in the Isle of Man. He worked in his father’s pub at night returning to London on occasion to print his work. On a return visit to the USA in 1971 Lee Witkin, the New York gallery owner, commissioned the Isle of Man limited edition portfolio, paying for it in advance so that Killip could continue to photograph. In 1972 he received one of the commissions from The Arts Council of Great Britain to photograph Huddersfield and Bury St Edmunds for the exhibition Two Views Two Cities. In 1975 he moved to live in Newcastle upon Tyne on a two year fellowship as the Northern Arts Photography Fellow. He was a founder member, and exhibition curator and advisor of Side Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne as well as the director, from 1977-9. He continued to live in Newcastle and photographed throughout the North East of England and 13

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from 1980-85 made occasional cover portraits for The London Review of Books. In 1989 he was commissioned by Pirelli UK to photograph the workforce at their tire factory in Burton on Trent. In 1989 he received the Henri Cartier Bresson Award and was invited in 1991 as a Visiting Lecturer, to the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. In 1994 he was made a tenured professor and was department chair from 1994-98. He continues to live in the USA, teaching at Harvard University. A retrospective exhibition of his work will take place at the Folkwang Museum, Essen, February 4 to April 15, then travel to LE BAL, Paris, May 11 to August 15 2012 and the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, October 1 2013 - February 20 2014.

Publications

BOOKS Isle of Man, text , John Berger, London: Zwemmer/AC of GB, 1980 In Flagrante, text , John Berger & Sylvia Grant, London: Secker & Warburg, 1988 French edition, Vague à L’âme, Editions Nathan, 1988 55, text Gerry Badger, Phaidon Press, 2001, plus French and German editions. Pirelli Work, text, Clive Dilnot, Steidl, Gottingen, Germany 2006 In Flagrante - A Case Study, text by G Badger, Errata Editions New York/DAP 2008 Here Comes Everybody, Chris Killip’s Irish Photographs, Thames & Hudson, London 2009 Seacoal, Chris Killip text and photographs, Steidl 2011 Arbeit/Work, text David Campny, Steisl/ Folkwang Museum 2012

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