Farmers of the Lizard

In early 2024, we were commissioned by Kestle Barton Gallery to make a new series of portraits focusing on farming on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall.

We photographed a diverse range of farmers and farming families on the Lizard. These included both large and small producers and people relatively new to the region as well as those whose families have worked the same land for five, or even six, generations.

Whilst dairy farming is the dominant form of farming on the Lizard there are numerous examples of emerging patterns of diversification. These are clearly manifest in initiatives such as the growth of regenerative and organic models, shifts from crop production to horticulture and in the subsidising of farming through tourism and farm shops.  

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A portfolio of the Lizard portraits will be housed at the Cornish archive Kresen Kernow as part of an on-going collection of ARL work.

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︎ Further text from this project HERE

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