An Extremely Un-Get-Atable Place

An Extremely Un-Get-Atable Place is a lyrical reimagining of the time that writer George Orwell lived at Barnhill, a remote farmhouse on the Isle of Jura in Scotland. It was here that Orwell wrote his landmark book Nineteen Eighty-Four—a dire warning of the dangers of totalitarianism and political despotism. Photographer Craig Easton was invited to stay at Barnhill—largely unchanged since Orwell’s time—where he made a series of landscape and still life images. In Easton’s new book, these photographs are presented alongside extracts from Orwell’s letters and diaries written on the island. The interior photographs of household items conjure up images of the simplicity of Orwell’s life—the stove and teapot, a shaving mirror, the worn carpet he trod, a coal shovel and tools hung in a shed.