The Middlesbrough-born photographer’s 1981 portrait has intimations of the gruelling working life endured by his father and of Britain’s lost industrial past

A Chris Killip retrospective, Vivian Maier’s hidden archive and the artist who tried to rename a Swiss mountain – here are the standout photographic exhibitions of the year

They were hailed as the great documentarians of their age for their intimate portraits of the north-east of England in the 70s and 80s. Now, almost 40 years after a groundbreaking exhibition, their work is being shown together again

The museum now has a worthy space for its spellbinding collection, which spans the medium’s history – from the Queen’s hippopotamus to Paul McCartney in his dressing gown