This programme of short films offers four perspectives on Chris Killip. They present an occasion to reflect on the contribution Chris Killip has made to photography as a practitioner and educator.

Programme running time: 34 mins

Programme running order:

Chris Killip: Seacoal, 2011, Dir. Gerdine Frenck, Prod. Museum of Photography, Braunschweig, 3:48

The documentary project Seacoal was shown as a monographic exhibition at the Museum of Photography, Braunschweig. Seacoal is dedicated to the inhabitants of a camp who illegally collect alluvial coal from a nearby mine on a coastal strip. This interview portrait with Chris Killip was produced on the occasion of his exhibition Seacoal at the Museum of Photography, Braunschweig.

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Chris Killip: Skinningrove, 2013, Dir. Michael Almereyda, 14.38

In the short film, Skinningrove, Chris Killip tells personal stories about the people in his photographs. Director Michael Almereyda made the film from a lecture Killip gave at Harvard University.

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In Memory: Chris Killip, 2020, Dir. Matthew Killip, 9.06

This interview, filmed and edited by Chris Killip's son Matthew, was made in Cambridge, Massachusetts where Chris Killip lived from 1991 until his death in October 2020. The interview was held for the award ceremony of the Dr. Erich Salomon Prize 2020, presented by the German Photographic Society (DGPh) to Chris Killip. Here he talks about his beginnings as a photographer, his understanding of what he has recorded through his work, and the complexity of photography's relationship to memory.

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Chris Killip, retrospective: an interview with exhibition curators Tracy Marshall Grant & Ken Grant, 2022, Prod. The Photographers' Gallery, 5:27

Photographer Ken Grant and arts director, curator & producer Tracy Marshall Grant co-curated the exhibition currently showing at The Photographers' Gallery (7 October 2022 - 19 February 2023). Here they take a break from installing the exhibition to talk about Chris Killip's photography and approach.