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Portraits of Cornish farming families go on show

Colin Robins and Oliver Udy Alan, Kelvin, Austin, Wayne and Alan Pengilly at Trebarveth FarmColin Robins and Oliver Udy
Alan, Kelvin, Austin, Wayne and Alan Pengilly at Trebarveth Farm

Farmers of a Cornish peninsula are the stars of a photography exhibition.

Documentary photographers Colin Robins and Oliver Udy have taken more than 20 portraits of families that farm The Lizard.

The exhibition, Anthology of Rural Life - Farmers of The Lizard, aims to illustrate the relationship between farmers and the land they live on.

The exhibition opens at Kestle Barton, an art gallery above the Helford River, on 15 June.

Steve Tanner Portrait of Colin Robins and Oliver Udy in the gallerySteve Tanner
Documentary photographers Colin Robins and Oliver Udy have taken more than 20 portraits of families that farm The Lizard

The photographs of The Lizard's farmers are interspersed with portraits of people living rurally across Europe.

Accompanying the exhibition are a series of free talks on food systems, farming and land use on 20-21 July.

After the show ends in September, the photographs would be archived at Kresen Kernow, Cornwall's archive centre, as a social and historical document, organisers said.

The exhibition and talks have been produced in collaboration with the Falmouth Art Gallery and The Museum of Cornish Life, Helston.

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