The Plough and the Pick

The Plough and the Pick, my first photobook, is about people and place within the Dearne Valley in South Yorkshire. It’s about social geographies and the enduring impacts of coal mining, and about agriculture within this peri-urban, post industrial space.

Using verbatim interview text alongside documentary photography, the work explores how the seemingly separate worlds of the plough and the pick are in fact intertwined within families and across this altered landscape, and offers working people’s reflections on past, present and future as pause for thought for all of us in a rapidly changing world.

Paper back, 100 pages, 200 x 270mm, containing 53 black and white images and accompanying text. Printed on recycled, uncoated paper. Perfect bound.