Chris Killip is one of the most influential British photographers, curators and teachers. His powerful images of industrial decline in the late 1970s and ‘80s were part of a body of work by a generation of photographers who firmly established documentary photography within an artistic context, and Killip’s years as founder, curator and director of the Side Gallery, Newcastle, in the 1970s defined an era in photographic history. His photographs are in the permanent collections of major institutions around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; George Eastman House; Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; Museum Folkwang, Essen; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; and the V&A / the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Chris Killip is currently teaching at Harvard University where he has taught as a Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies since 1991.