Thatcher's Children

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 LibEration 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.?

• | Author: Craig Easton
• | Publisher: Gost Books
• | Publication Date: Jun 27, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 136 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1910401846
• | ISBN-13: 9781910401842