Chris Killip - Here Comes Everybody

Thames & Hudson 2009

“Here comes everybody” is a phrase that echoes repeatedly in James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake, and as such it aptly captures the spirit of this new collection of photos taken over repeated trips to Ireland between 1993 and 2005. On each visit Killip attended the annual pilgrimages at Croagh Patrick and Maamean in the west of Ireland, places of wild beauty and ancient spirituality.

“I now wanted to photograph in Ireland and planned the timing of my next visit more carefully. I would teach for three days in the middle of the week, allowing me to go on the last Sunday in July to the annual pilgrimage at Croagh Patrick then on the last Sunday in August to the pilgrimage at Mamean that the Irish photographer, Tony O’Shea, had told me about. O’Shea said that Mamean was small and special, very much a local event, different, he said, from Croagh Patrick as all the rites were sung in Irish and it was in a beautiful place. He also cautioned me that the priest there was fierce.”

34.04 x 1.78 x 24.64 cm

96 Pages - Hardcover