Rural Lifestyles are an overlooked aspect of British Living. Farmers are international businessmen, trading across the globe, yet often live in poor, poverty-like conditions, collapsing buildings, and have to cut corners to make ends meet. At least one farmer every week kills themselves.
Documenting rural Dorset and Wiltshire, the sacrifices made here to keep the countryside ‘postcard perfect’ far outweighs the benefits. It’s time to let the dream go, and allow these communities to develop.
This is a collection of prints, onto cartridge paper, hand-cut and hand-bound, in a unique, characteristically rustic book, forming the current study of England’s Dreaming.
Find out more about Jennifer Forward-Hayter.
Photographer
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Jennifer Forward-Hayter
Jennifer was born in Dorset, and is the only member of her family who can’t drive a tractor. Her early arts education consisted of reading Sunday magazines pulled from bins, and postcards. This mass art rhetoric brought foundations of history, TV, pop culture, philosophy, story-telling and journalism into Jennifer’s own work. She graduated from Middlesex University, and wants to be John Berger.
Details
Approx: 15x21.5cm
30 pages
Softback
£15.50
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