Christopher David Killip was a Manx photographer who worked at Harvard University from 1991 to 2017, as a Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies.
13 Facts About Chris Killip
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Chris Killip received the Henri Cartier-Bresson Award and was shortlisted for the Deutsche Borse Photography Foundation Prize.
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Chris Killip exhibited all over the world, wrote extensively, appeared on radio and television, and curated many exhibitions.
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Chris Killip was born in Douglas, Isle of Man; his parents ran the Highlander pub.
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Chris Killip left school at 16 to work as a trainee hotel manager, while working as a beach photographer.
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Chris Killip soon went freelance, along with periods working in his father's pub on the Isle of Man.
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In 1969, Chris Killip ended his commercial work to concentrate on his own photography.
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Chris Killip moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne to pursue this work, to which Creative Camera devoted most of its May 1977 issue.
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In 1977, Chris Killip became a co-founder, exhibition curator, and advisor at the Side Gallery, Newcastle, and worked as its first director for 18 months.
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Chris Killip produced a body of work from his photographs in the northeast of England, published in 1988 as In Flagrante with a text by Berger and Sylvia Grant.
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In 1988, Chris Killip was commissioned by Pirelli UK to photograph its tyre factory in Burton; agreement on this was reached in April the next year, whereupon Chris Killip started work.
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Chris Killip was made a tenured professor in 1994, and remained as a professor of visual and environmental studies until 2017.
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Chris Killip had a son, Matthew, with the photographer Marketa Luskacova.