This week is people’s last chance to see a poignant photographic series showing life in a Cumbrian coastal village during the early 1980s.
Chris Killip’s series Askam-in-Furness captures the place and people and will be on show at Signal Film and Media’s newly refurbished Cooke’s Studios gallery in Barrow until November 1.
It is curated by Phil Northcott and supported by the Chris Killip Photography Trust and the Martin Parr Foundation.
It features 20 photographs from 1982, shown together for the first time.
The exhibition also includes 59 digital scans from negatives and an archive installation of previously unseen images by Killip, taken during his time in Askam-in-Furness.
The images were recently uncovered by Signal Film and Media during a research project with the local Askam community to reconnect with some of the subjects shown in the Askam-in-Furness series.
The exhibition has launched the reopening of the newly redeveloped Signal Film and Media gallery within its newly redeveloped arts centre, Cooke’s Studios.
The project is a £1.4 million capital refurbishment, funded by ACE and the Government Community Ownership Fund.
Martin said: “Chris is without a doubt one of the key players in post-war British photography. He led the way in which he would befriend the communities he photographed, and this created the intimacy and strength of his images.”
