Farmscapes

My practice focuses on the land in relationship to people and people to the land; in that spirit, this collection of images from around the world forms part of an ongoing survey of the ‘farmscape,’ or human-cultivated landscapes, much of it the result of research and filming for the Final Straw documentary.

Medium: photography
Location: Europe, East Asia, North America
Years: 2012 – current

You might notice that the majority of these lands look more like wild gardens than farms, and indeed they are far different from the places where most of the food we consume is grown. Many of these images are ‘natural’ farms where farmers forgo chemicals and fertilizers and instead work to cultivate an intensely personal connection to the land.

Related projects: Final Straw / Human:Nature / Harvest

Exhibitions

Images from this series have been exhibited in:

• Forest is the Artist, PlaceMAK Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
• Food, Art, Nature, TENT Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
• Human+City+Nature, Space Noah, Seoul, South Korea
• Tool, Mind, Earth, Robert Callender International Residency, Kinghorn, Scotland
• Real Time Food, Oni Gallery, Megijima, Japan
• [Human:Nature], Megi House, Setouchi Triennale, Megijima, Japan

Publications

Images from this series have been published in:

• “불안과 경쟁 없는 이곳에서 ” (A Place Without Anxiety or Competition)
  열매하나 (Yeolmaehana Books) / Co-authored with Suhee Kang
  ISBN:9791196171117
• “자연농” (Final Straw: Wisdom from the Field)
  그물코 (Gemulko Books) / Co-authored with Suhee Kang 
  ISBN: 9788990090775
• 다큐 ‘자연농’을 찍은 감독들이 농촌 대신 도시에 정착한 이유 (Nature Film Directors Settle in City Instead of Countryside), Hello Farmer (Korea)
• Kaygının Olmadığı Bir Yaşam: Final Straw (A Life Without Worry: Final Straw), Film Hafazasi (Turkey)
• “The Branch: Suhee Kang and Patrick Lydon,” ちさいの本 (Japan)
• “Enlightenment Begins when Everything is Connected,” Huffington Post (Korea)
• “Happiness in a Slow Life – The Story of Final Straw,” ROAD Magazine (Korea)
• “Eco Farming. A Beautifully Poetic Look at our Food and Environment,” Clean Eating Magazine (USA)
• “We Are Farmers,” ESSEN Magazine(Korea)
• “What the Garden-Hacking Grandmas of South Korea Know,” YES! Magazine
• “Farmers, Chefs and Lawyers: Building an Ecology of One,” The Nature of Cities
• “Rice Fields, Rice Balls, and Relationships,” SocieCity
• “What Would Happen if we All Grew Food?,” Resilience
• “Megijima, What the Loss of Culture Teach us about Urban Nature,” The Nature of Cities

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