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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. 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, and awarded Photographer of the Year at the Sony World Photography Awards. His work is held in the collections of Hull Maritime Museum, Salford University and the University of St Andrews.Craig Easton: Is Anybody Listening? is showing at Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool until 26 February 2023.

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