thatcher’s children

Is Anybody Listening? That’s the question posed by photographer Craig Easton in a new exhibition at Blackpool School of Arts. Its starting point is a set of images captured in a Blackpool homeless hostel over 30 years ago and it encompasses two major bodies of work that attempt to address Northern stereotypes. The photographs often are, but the question of representation versus misrepresentation, he reveals, is not black and white. In 1992 photographer Craig Easton was commissioned by French newspaper Libération to document the British “underclass”. He headed to Blackpool. Here, he met the Williams family. Mick, Mandy and their…