Craig Easton is a British documentary photographer. He was born in Edinburgh and grew up in Liverpool. He studied physics at the University of Salford in the 1980s and started photographing there. In the early 1990s he worked as a photojournalist at The Independent newspaper.
Easton makes long-term projects about social policy, identity, culture and community. He has published four books: Fisherwomen (Ten O'Clock Books, 2020), Bank Top (GOST Books, 2022), Thatcher's Children (GOST Books, 2023) and An Extremely Un-get-atable Place (GOST Books, 2025).
In 2021 he won Photographer of the Year at the Sony World Photography Awards for Bank Top. The series has black and white portraits of people in the Bank Top neighbourhood of Blackburn.
His newest book is about the Isle of Jura in Scotland, where George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four. Easton was invited to stay at Barnhill, the farmhouse where Orwell lived. He worked with a large-format 10x8 field camera. He printed the negatives as silver gelatin prints and toned them in strong tea. Orwell's son, Richard Blair, wrote the afterword.
His work is held in public collections, including Hull Maritime Museum, the University of Salford and the University of St Andrews.
