Chris Killip Quotes
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I don't like smiley pictures. A smile is a defense mechanism. It says, You can't have the real me but here's my smile. You get closer to the real person when they stop smiling.
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I take what isn't mine and I covet other people's lives.
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I wanted [photography] to be more than a document, to be something that is as close as you could possibly be to the subject.
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The last picture I took of David. Two years after I’d taken that picture, he was fishing and the boat overturned and David drowned.
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You’re going to get a picture by being there. It’s never easy. Sometimes you’re good and they’re good…I’d never seen them before and I never saw them again.
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I’m talking to him and photographing, but I can do that because I knew him.
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The moment you make a photograph you consign whatever you photograph to the past as that specific moment no longer exists, it is history. The photography that I practice takes place in a specific time and place, depicting real moments in people’s lives. In some ways I think of myself as a historian, but not of the word. History is most often written from a distance, and rarely from the viewpoint of those who endured it.
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I am the photographer of the de-industrial revolution in England. I didn’t set out to be this. It’s what happened during the time I was photographing.