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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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