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Bank Top – congregation not segregation during COVID-19 Published 08 May 2021
CREDIT: Craig Easton The series, Bank Top, is partly the result of many years of inter-related projects I’ve been working on across the north of England. In much of my work, I can see concerns and themes that have developed over the years – the same concerns that made me want to be a photographer in the first place and Bank Top is a continuation of that. Paul Strand once said, “I want to use photography as an instrument of research into and reporting on the life of my own time”; I think that is very much my approach. I’d like the work I make to have a value beyond the news agenda and to stand as a testament to the times we are living in for future generations. That may be a grand aim and I may not always achieve it, but when I look back in history it is the work of Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Lewis Hine, Paul Strand and countless others that have gi ....
A Blackburn University group leader collaborated on a global award winning photography project. University Centre’s Academic Group Leader in Community, Abdul Hafiz, collaborated with Craig Easton on his award winning series Bank Top. For the project, Craig was named Sony World Photography Awards’ Photographer of the Year for 2021, which marked its 14th anniversary this year. Craig Easton s photography captured the culture and misrepresentation of the Bank Top area of Blackburn which features the residents and the shopkeepers from different backgrounds and cultures. Bank Top was also used by Craig in Blackburn’s Kick Down the Barriers exhibition at Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery – an exhibition where local artists and writers worked in and with the communities of Blackburn to redefine the labels of ‘segregation’ and ‘division’. ....
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