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<\/p>\nIn the most recent issue of 8, Chris Killip wrote a review of Paul Graham’s\u00a0 exhibition, A Shimmer of Possibility.\u00a0 He recognized in Graham’s work societal inequalities that may be caused or perpetuated by political or class structures, but which also are lived as human experience and described as such in Graham’s photographs.\u00a0 Killip likens Graham’s work to Robert Frank’s, as work that is not reassuring but that “needs to be seen”.<\/p>\n
The very same can be said about Killip’s own work (which has been compared to Frank’s as well).\u00a0 Killip’s work has gathered new attention in recent months.\u00a0 Here Comes Everybody, a book of black and white and colour photographs of pilgrimages in the west of Ireland made over several years has just been released by Thames and Hudson.\u00a0 Eight of Killip’s images were honoured as Isle of Man postage stamps (which Foto8 proudly exhibited at the New York Photo Festival two weeks ago).\u00a0 And, Killip’s seminal In Flagrante is included in the first group of Errata Editions’ new Books on Books series, which seeks to make important photo books that will not be reprinted newly available as a study object. (The entirety of In Flagrante is reproduced in the Books on Books volume, but not all at full scale).<\/p>\n
Killip’s work represents an apparently effortless marriage between photographic control and conscientious observation, all the while reverberating with humanism.\u00a0 Both his photographs and his books are the result of careful consideration.\u00a0 For this reason he has been compared to Frank.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Foto8 and HOST Gallery are proud to present Chris Killip at HOST gallery on Friday 5 June in an exclusive London date, speaking to long-term colleague and friend, Ken Grant.<\/p>\n
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![\"Chris](\"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/n172509515084_8492.jpg\" "\\"Chris")
<\/a> Chris Killip’s work represents an apparently effortless marriage between photographic control and conscientious observation, all the while reverberating with humanism.\u00a0 Both his photographs and his books are the result of careful consideration.\u00a0 For this reason he has been compared to Robert Frank.\u00a0 His work has gathered new interest in recent months.<\/p>\n