Chris Killip: I love the photo book. There’s something fantastic about the book.
[music featuring acoustic guitar]
Female Narrator: Photographer Chris Killip.
Chris Killip: There’s something so intrinsically important about this thing where you can pick up a book, flick through it backwards, pull it down, throw it down. Then one night you may get a drink, put some music on, pick it up again and look at it. And you’re determined at this point, it’s a pre-determined thing, that at some point you’re going to start at the beginning and work your way through to the end.
So, it has the most perfect delivery. And the size of the book doesn’t matter because you can just pick up the book and bring it closer, and it can fill your vision, no matter what size it is. Some of the best books are very, very small.
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Female Narrator: Killip has labored over the sequencing of images in his books to tell the story of the photographs inside.
Chris Killip: It’s the narrative possibility, and the juxtaposition of images. It’s the perfect vehicle for photography. Particularly my sort of photography. I like doing exhibitions because they’re different, but the book is of paramount importance to me.
