Shooting with a large format camera, in black and white, on weekends off from jobs assisting advertising photographers in London, Chris Killip documented the British working class of the Northeast. With In Flagrante, whose images he made between 1973 and 1985, Killip bridged a period in which the foundations of England's empire-building industries were undermined, then shattered, by new economic policies that came to be personified by the rule of Margaret Thatcher between 1979 and 1990. Above: Youth on a Wall, Jarrow, Tyneside, 1976. © Chris Killip.

An exhibition of this celebrated body of work opened last night at Yossi Milo Gallery, with 50 new prints made by the photographer. This is the first time since 1988 that the series has been exhibited in its entirety and the first time ever in the United States. 

© Chris Killip, Bever’s First Day Out, Skinningrove, North Yorkshire, 1982.

Later this year, a complete set of 50 vintage prints from the original In Flagrante series acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum, in 2014, will go on view in Los Anglees. The 2012 interview with Killip for Aperture can be read here. Martin Parr's interview yesterday for Time Lightbox can be read here. A new edition of the book, In Flagrant Two, has just been published by Steidl

Chris Killip | In Flagrante Two runs through February 27 at Yossi Milo Gallery. 245 Tenth Avenue, NY, NY.