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 per…

- Chris Killip

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

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

- Chris Killip

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 photogr…

- Chris Killip