Couple Eating Fish and Chips, Whitley Bay, Tyneside

Chris Killip was a British photographer whose black-and-white documentary work captured the social and economic decline of post-industrial Britain from the 1970s onward. Working primarily in the North East of England, he developed a sustained photographic practice that prioritized long-term engagement with working-class communities and landscapes of deindustrialization. His formal control of tone and composition transformed social documentation into a rigorous visual form.