Thatcher's Children
by
Craig Easton
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1910401846
ISBN-13
9781910401842
Publisher
GOST Books
Imprint
GOST Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 1st, 2023
Print length
136 Pages
Weight
786 grams
Dimensions
27.70 x 21.90 x 2.00 cms
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Thatcher’s Children, a long-term project by photographer Craig Easton, examines the intergenerational nature of poverty as experienced by three generations of the Williams family in the north of England. The passage of time shown in the book demonstrates how deprivation is connected to the social policy failures of successive governments.
Thatcher’s Children was born out of a series first made in 1992 focusing on two parents and six children living in a hostel for homeless families in Blackpool, England. The project was made in response to a speech by Peter Lilley, then Secretary of State for Social Security, in which he announced his determination to ‘close down the something-for-nothing society.’ French newspaper Libération dispatched a journalist to northern England to find out what this society looked like, and Easton was commissioned to take the accompanying photographs. His resulting monochrome images of the overcrowded two-bedroom council flat in Blackpool sparked a reaction by both the public and the press. His images attached human faces and nuanced realities to a group of people casually maligned by politicians and media as an ‘underclass of scroungers.’
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