The British photographer Chris Killip has died at the age of 74. One of the most highly regarded documentary photographers of his generation, Killip was best known for his series In Flagrante, which depicted life in a deindustrializing north-east of England between 1973 and 1985. He began teaching at Harvard in 1991, and was chair of its department of art, film and visual studies between 1994 and 1998, retiring three years ago. Despite taking part in landmark shows at the Serpentine Gallery (with Graham Smith), being included in ‘British Photography from the Thatcher Years’ at MoMA in 1991, and having shows at the Getty and Folkwang Museum, Killip never had a retrospective in the UK.
At Leila Heller Gallery in Dubai, Indian contemporary artist Manish Nai invites viewers to reconsider the materials that surround them. In In Search of Material within Material, a solo exhibition bringing together works created between 2021 and 2026, discarded objects, industrial surfaces and familiar everyday materials become the starting point for an exploration of form, memory and transformation.