Chris Killip – The Station LGBTQIA+ compassion and care is carried

compassion and care is carried by the landscape

Lee Mary Manning’s In Excelsis was created during a residency at the Mahler & LeWitt Studios in Spoleto

While the world-famous 1939 movie was temporarily “canceled” in 2020

reveals first-hand what it was like to have one’s memories and actions unrepentantly put into question and infiltrated by those whose job it is to supposedly preserve the truth

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Chris Killip – The Station LGBTQIA+ compassion and care is carriedLate in 2016 Chris Killips son serendipitously discovered a box of contact sheets of the photos his father had made at The Station, an anarcho punk music venue in Gateshead open from 1981 to 1985. These images of raw youth caught in the heat of celebration had lain dormant for 30 years; they now return to life in this book. The Station was not merely a music and rehearsal space, but a crucible for the self expression of the sub cultures and punk