Author Description

This book showcases Chris Killip's photography from 1969 to 2005, and is a retrospective of a photographer who has influenced an entire generation of younger documentary photographers. Arbeit / Work presents several of Killip's longterm projects, primarily in North England, which explore the working and living conditions of people through portraits as well as images of landscapes and architecture. This comprehensive publication includes Killip's early portraits for the first time in book form, as well as images made in Ireland and on the Isle of Man.