The year has started off with lots of bangs! The friendly guys in Leicestershire were happy for me to tag along for the day.
The pictures form part of a long term personal project ‘Field to Food’ (may change the title!), illustrating the whole process of getting food on the table. So often all we see is a sanitised version of where our food comes from, completely alienating us from it. Kids grow up thinking that fish have fingers and chicken have nuggets! Even us adults can’t stomach the thought of slaughterhouses and butchery – and yet we devour our quarter pound steaks with relish.
Shooting wildlife is another method of getting food for the table and like other ‘production’ methods, has got its fair share of detractors. Fortunately I’m in the position of being the observer and as such get to keep an open mind, which helps in (hopefully) creating an honest and balanced set of pictures.
Spending a day with the shooters turned out perfect and in the end I ran out of light before I ran out of things to take pictures of.
At some point there was a suggestion that I should handle one of the guns, but that idea was dropped pretty soon when they realised that I normally shoot people and not birds!
To view the full set of pictures of this shoot, please visit my picture library. You can order exhibition prints directly from the site and if you’re a picture editor you can purchase downloads.
