Bank Top
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2022
Gost Books (Verlag)
978-1-910401-68-2 (ISBN)
Gost Books (Verlag)
978-1-910401-68-2 (ISBN)
BANK TOP by photographer Craig Easton examines the representation and misrepresentation of northern
communities. The work focuses on a small, tight-knit community in Blackburn, England, which has become
synonymous with the use of words like segregation and integration – BBC’s Panorama describing it as ‘the most
segregated town in Britain’.
Easton’s photographs, alongside texts by writer, poet and social researcher Abdul Aziz
Hafiz, aim to confront stereotypes and question the dangerous over-simplification of the challenges facing such
communities. They do so by presenting the contemporary experience of residents as an ‘alternative history telling’.
The black and white photographs in the book were all made in an area less than half a mile square in Blackburn
during 2019 and 2020. Working with a large-format wooden field camera, Easton spent long days and weeks in the
neighbourhood talking to residents and sometimes making pictures. The project melds image and text — Easton’s
portraiture and landscapes combined with poetry and an essay by Aziz Hafiz and with the testimonies of residents.
This long-form collaboration acknowledges the issues and impacts of social deprivation, housing, unemployment,
immigration and representation, as well as past and present foreign policy. The result is a collective and nuanced
portrait of the town — a sensitive response to the oversimplistic representation of such communities in both the
media and by government, which deny the right of Bank Top to tell its own story.
communities. The work focuses on a small, tight-knit community in Blackburn, England, which has become
synonymous with the use of words like segregation and integration – BBC’s Panorama describing it as ‘the most
segregated town in Britain’.
Easton’s photographs, alongside texts by writer, poet and social researcher Abdul Aziz
Hafiz, aim to confront stereotypes and question the dangerous over-simplification of the challenges facing such
communities. They do so by presenting the contemporary experience of residents as an ‘alternative history telling’.
The black and white photographs in the book were all made in an area less than half a mile square in Blackburn
during 2019 and 2020. Working with a large-format wooden field camera, Easton spent long days and weeks in the
neighbourhood talking to residents and sometimes making pictures. The project melds image and text — Easton’s
portraiture and landscapes combined with poetry and an essay by Aziz Hafiz and with the testimonies of residents.
This long-form collaboration acknowledges the issues and impacts of social deprivation, housing, unemployment,
immigration and representation, as well as past and present foreign policy. The result is a collective and nuanced
portrait of the town — a sensitive response to the oversimplistic representation of such communities in both the
media and by government, which deny the right of Bank Top to tell its own story.
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.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.01.2022 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 245 x 310 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst |
| ISBN-10 | 1-910401-68-4 / 1910401684 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-910401-68-2 / 9781910401682 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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