06/04/26 Fifty Years of Photographing Farmers
Photographing the changing face of agriculture over fifty years.
Farming Today · BBC Radio 4
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Show Notes
Devon-based photographer Chris Chapman has been photographing Dartmoor and the people who live there for more than 50 years. He's turned his camera many times on farmers and agricultural workers to depict daily life in the countryside.
Chris tells reporter Fiona Clampin about documenting the changing face of agriculture over the course of half a century, including in 2001 a series of harrowing images taken on one Devon farm at the height of the foot and mouth crisis. The resulting book, Silence at Ramscliffe, is a testament to the power of photography to capture history in the making.
Produced and presented by Fiona Clampin.