Working Land refers to two facets of rural landscape: the idea of working the land as a vocation and as a description of productive ground. My family tree includes immigrant ancestors who made a living from working the soil and some of their descendants who carry on this work to the present day. That personal connection to working land inspired the project.
onion harvest
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Lida Farm, August 29, 2014: I went to the Pesch farm to make some portraits, but along the way these rows of harvested onions drying in the sun struck me as a beautiful temporary sculpture. I see aesthetic value everywhere in farm settings. Beauty, efficiency, great inventions and innovations all grow from the same root, a fact intuitively understood by every good worker.