Begun in 2011, this photographic project, which documents the rhythms of small family farming and agriculture in Knox County, Ohio and the surrounding region, attempts to bring visibility to community farm practices and environments, as well as agricultural events taking place in the northeast central area of the state. This selection of photographs presents a diversity of subjects, which taken together, tell an extended narrative about farming in this region, while embracing the daily labor and remarkable beauty that resides in every aspect of this profession, and way of life and landscape. A primary goal of Farmways: A Snapshot is to explore, intimately at close range, farmers at work, farm environments, livestock and crop planting and harvesting, assorted other chores and educationally demonstrative agricultural events, including the county fair, annual harvest festivals, and the farmer’s market. These varied facets of local agriculture offer an informationally rich visual panoply. It should be noted that such a photographic study, suggesting an outline and aesthetics of local agricultural work and practices, and local celebrations of farm life, is a rather unique approach. Attention to this subject has received scant, if any, dedicated attention from photographic practitioners. Read more
-Dan Younger
