We are really pleased to share that Craig Easton has launched a Kickstarter campaign for his beautiful new book, An Extremely Un-get-atable Place: George Orwell on Jura.

The book is a lyrical re-imagining of the time Orwell spent at Barnhill, the remote farmhouse on the Isle of Jura, where he lived between 1946 and his death in 1950 and where he wrote his great dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Shot on a 1952 large-format wooden plate camera, Craig’s landscape and still life photographs are printed in the darkroom then toned with strong tea (as a nod to Orwell’s famous love of the drink). In this beautiful large-scale art book the prints are presented alongside quotes from Orwell’s letters and diaries celebrating the joy of nature and the simple pleasures that offer us all hope in challenging times.

Craig is a multi award-winning photographer whose work is deeply rooted in the documentary tradition.

His work is exhibited and collected widely and he has published three monographs: Fisherwomen, Ten O’Clock Books, 2021
Bank Top, GOST Books, 2022
Thatcher’s Children, GOST Books, 2023

In 2021, he won Photographer of the Year at the SONY World Photography Awards for his series Bank Top, and the following year was recognised with an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society. In 2023, he was awarded the Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture and at The Orwell Awards, a special prize for Thatcher’s Children in recognition of his long-term commitment to ‘Exposing Britain’s Social Evils’.

The project is now live on Kickstarter (link below) and offers some discounted options on books and prints.

Please do take a look — and feel free to share with anyone else who might connect with it.
Craig Easton – Kickstarter