“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 photography that I practice takes place in a specific time and place, depicting real moments in people's lives. In some ways I think of myself as a historian, but not of the word. History is most often written from a distance, and rarely from the viewpoint of those who endured it.”
![“I wanted [photography] to be more than a document, to be something that is as close as you could possibly be to the subject.” quote by Chris Killip](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f32/chris-killip-70056_documents_i-wanted-photography-to-be-more-than-a-d_1196070.jpg)
