On the 15th of November 2018, the Laing art gallery held an exhibition of the The last ships by Chris Killip.
It was such an honour to be part of the talk by this legend. He started off by telling us how his passion for photography developed not forgetting to tell us the amount of dedication that he has put into it and how he worked in his dads business just so he could afford every single photography material he required. As well as how he could not afford to publish all the photographs he wanted to and had to cut down the number of images by half there is a certain amount of sadness in his voice as he explains this.
Chris Killip went on to to explain about the ship yard pictures with a lot of humility when he said that the photographs really belong to the people in the pictures and their families. As a result, he donated some of his work to an art gallery in Isle of Man.
The amount of love and enthusiasm that he expresses about these images is evident that he clearly created a relationship with the subjects. The most surprising thing is how he remembered every little detail about every image including the name of the people involved .
Killip could definitely be referred to a Jack of all trades in photography as he has ventured in more than one field eg documentary, portraits, street photography, landscape and urban landscape photography.
He explains that he is used to use the 5×4 camera either handheld or on a tripod for his street work especially . He is so vast in its usage such that with time he knew exactly where to stand from the subjecting even adjust the focus in secrecy.
Chris Killip throughout the talk emphasised on the truth by saying ”Don’t lie always tell the truth,” he explained that his photography wouldn’t be anything it is if he had lied about his career and intentions to take photographs of people.
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