Working the Land    
 Pauline Rook ARPS LMPA


WORKING THE LAND











This is a collection of black and white images that were exhibited alongside colour photographs by Jenny Graham. The project took place over a year and received backing from the Art Council and local councils. The photographs were not meant to be a documentary on modern farming but were the images that presented themselves on visiting over 25 working farms.

James Crowden wrote in the exhibition catalogue 'Pauline Rook of Lopen in Somerset uses Black and White, the true unrelenting image of agriculture: farmers having a lunch break whilst potato planting, potato harvesting, milking parlours, a young shepherdess, vineyards, silage clamps, farm sales, auctions, chicks, maize, beef cattle, curious lambs, boy racer's burnt out cars, shearing, teasels, old implements. The list is endless but the eye is firm. Pauline was a dairy farmer's wife and has been looking at agriculture from the inside out, for at least twenty years. Images are all the more powerful if the person taking the picture has the confidence of those that he or she is photographing'.

 







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