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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