About Craig Easton

Craig Easton is an internationally acclaimed photographer whose work explores issues around social policy, identity and culture.

Known for his intimate portraits and expansive landscapes, his pictures are often presented alongside text and audio to weave a narrative between contemporary experience and history.

In 2021 Craig Easton was awarded the prestigious title of ‘Photographer of the Year’ at the SONY World Photography Awards and the following year was recognised with an ‘Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society’. In 2023 he was awarded the ‘Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture’ in the USA and at The Orwell Awards, a special prize for Thatcher’s Children in recognition of his long-term commitment to ‘Exposing Britain’s Social Evils’.

Craig is the author of three critically acclaimed monographs: Fisherwomen, Bank Top and Thatcher’s Children. His forthcoming book An Extremely Un-get-atable Place: George Orwell on Jura will be published in Autumn 2025, the first of three books made in the Scottish Islands that will become a boxed set called An Island Trilogy.

https://www.craigeaston.com/