Craig Easton (photographer)
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Craig Easton is a British photographer who lives in The Wirral and works on long-term social documentary projects that deal with the representation of communities in the North of England.[1][2][3] He has made work about women working in the UK fish processing industry; about the inter-generational nature of poverty and economic hardship in Northern England; about social deprivation, housing, unemployment and immigration in Blackburn; and about how the situation in which young people throughout the UK live, influences their aspirations.
Easton's Fisherwomen has been published as a book and shown in solo exhibitions at Montrose Museum and Hull Maritime Museum. The group project he organised, Sixteen, was exhibited all over the UK in 2019/20. He has been overall winner of Travel Photographer of the Year,[4] and awarded Photographer of the Year at the Sony World Photography Awards.[5] His work is held in the collections of Hull Maritime Museum,[6] Salford University[7] and the University of St Andrews.[8]
Easton's Is Anybody Listening? was shown at Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool in 2023.[9]