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JOHN GREEN recommends the exhibitions of work by two of Britain’s most important and influential post-war documentary photographers
(L to R) Family on a Sunday walk, Skinningrove, 1982; The Station, Gateshead, 1985 [Chris Killip]

20/20: Chris Killip/Graham Smith
Augusta Edwards Fine Art
Chris Killip, retrospective
The Photographers' Gallery
Chris Killip 1946-2020, Thames & Hudson, £50

 

LITTLE do many realise, when they visit the affluent towns and villages of south-east England or London’s crowded shopping centres that they are experiencing a country very different from the one they would find in the north of our “sceptred isle.”

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