Skinningrove | Chris Killip | Stanley Barker 2024

Skinningrove | Chris Killip | Stanley Barker 2024Like a lot of tight knit fishing communities, it could be hostile to strangers, especially one with a camera. Now Then is the standard greeting in Skinningrove; a challenging substitute for the more usual, Hello. The place had a definite edge, and it took time for this stranger to be tolerated. My greatest ally in gaining acceptance was Leso (Leslie Holliday), the most outgoing of the younger fishermen. Leso and I never talked about what I was doing

Second volume of the NGS "little library" with photographs by Jacques Bourboulon

Light old book odor

emphasizes that we live within a 'second seeing' by way of an internalized other that exists behind the first-level perception

this endless city

when publication ceased

as only one boat was still fishing

We spent 9 months taking pictures before she headed off to university… The other day we ran out of Hello Kitty film – impossible to get in London – so we bought a few packs of Mermaid Tail because it sounded kind of cool and we wanted to finish our zine

Some dirt and discoloration on the dustjacket

radio and tv entertainers

except for a few spots on the first pages

The photos of the interiors are from another copy

This causes the light to draw the silhouettes of the subjects on the background with a high but delicate contrast