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John Foley – Farmer

Posted on 18 May ’12

A few images from a shoot earlier this week. My mother grew upon a farm. I even studied veterinary medicine, and for a while farming was in my blood. That was in the 1980’s and farming has changed so much since then,  and so I feel privileged to have known the great characters and a way of farming life that has largely fallen away into history. Farmers have always interested me, from the big corporate style of farming to the smaller farmer. They live in a curious world where the old comes toegther with the new. They also form the backbone to the agri-food sector in Ireland contributing €24 billion to the national economy. So who are these farmers? This is what my ongoing…