Bank Top by photographer Craig Easton examines the representation and misrepresentation of northern communities. The work focuses on a small, tight-knit community in Blackburn, England, which has become synonymous with words like segregation and integration, having been described by the BBC's Panorama as 'the most segregated town in Britain'. Easton's photographs, alongside texts by writer, poet and social researcher Abdul Aziz Hafiz, aim to confront stereotypes and question the dangerous over-simplification of the challenges facing such communities, presenting the contemporary experience of residents as an 'alternative history telling'. The black and white photographs were all made in an area less than half a mile square during 2019 and 2020; working with a large-format wooden field camera, Easton spent long days and weeks in the neighbourhood talking to residents and making pictures, some of their testimonies incorporated into the book. The project melds image and text, acknowledging the issues and impacts of social deprivation, housing, unemployment, immigration and representation, as well as past and present foreign policy, while tracing a shared history of migration into the town's textile industry.