An Extremely Un-Get-Atable Place

An Extremely Un-get-atable Place is a lyrical exploration and re-imagining of the time that George Orwell spent in a remote farmhouse called Barnhill on the Isle of Jura in the Hebrides, Scotland, where between 1946-1949 he lived and wrote his classic dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Photographer Craig Easton was invited to stay at Barnhill and there made a series of landscape and still life images with his large format 10x8 field camera. The photographs in An Extremely Un-get-atable Place are presented alongside extracts from Orwell’s diaries & letters that he wrote during his life on the island.

This is the first book of ’An Island Trilogy’ - three monographs to be published over the next two years all made in the Scottish Islands.

Craig Easton 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, two published by GOST. In 2021, he won Photographer of the Year at the SONY World Photography Awards and 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.