Chris Killip Quotes

• I don't like smiley pictures. A smile is a defense mechanism. It says, You can't have the real me but here's my smile. You get closer to the real person when they stop smiling.

  Chris Killip

  Real, Defense, My Smile

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• The moment you make a photograph you consign whatever you photograph to the past as that specific moment no longer exists, it is history. The photography that I practice takes place in a specific time and place, depicting real moments in people's lives. In some ways I think of myself as a historian, but not of the word. History is most often written from a distance, and rarely from the viewpoint of those who endured it.

  Chris Killip

  Photography, Real, Distance

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• I wanted [photography] to be more than a document, to be something that is as close as you could possibly be to the subject.

  Chris Killip

  Photography, Wanted, Subjects

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• I take what isn't mine and I covet other people's lives.

  Chris Killip

  People, Mines

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