Sixteen
Sixteen was a multiple award-winning group photography project conceived and led by Craig Easton in which he invited fifteen leading contemporary photographers to join him and collaborate with sixteen-year-olds from all around the UK. Young people from all different social backgrounds and locations were invited to respond to questions about what it means to be sixteen in the UK today. The work challenges the notion of meritocracy and examines how social background, ethnicity, gender, location, education, health etc all influence what young people think they can achieve in life.
The work was shown in 20 exhibitions both in gallery settings and outdoors in the public realm from Shetland to Cornwall and Belfast to London throughout 2019/2020
Original 2016 series
The Scottish Islands
The North
Publication & Exhibitions
Media
Filmed in the Western Isles by Robert C Brady
Photography on Screen film for Screen Machine Scotland with Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow
Behind-the-scenes
with Anne Braybon (curator), Liz Wewiora (project manager) and photographers: Linda Brownlee, David Copeland, Lottie Davies, Jillian Edelstein, Stuart Freedman, Sophie Gerrard, Kalpesh Lathigra, Roy Mehta, Christopher Nunn, Kelly O’Brien, Kate Peters, Michelle Sank, Abbie Trayler-Smith, Simon Roberts and Robert C Brady
