The East Anglians
Justin Partyka
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Reed Cutter, Suffolk, 2004
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Farmhouse Interior, Norfolk, 2006
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Eric Wortley, Norfolk, 2005
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Farmyard Scene, Norfolk, 2005
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Inside a Farm Workshop, Norfolk, 2004
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Sugar Beet Harvest, Norfolk, 2004
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Farmyard Scene, Norfolk, 2006
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Burning Farm Rubbish, Norfolk, 2004
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Eel Catcher, Cambridgeshire, 2002
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Abandoned Farm, Norfolk, 2007
For nearly a decade, Justin Partyka has been photographing rural lives in East Anglia. He has taken over 14,000 photographs. His photographs appear in Granta 102: The New Nature Writing, alongside Robert Macfarlane’s essay ‘Ghost Species’. Click here to see more of Partyka’s work.
Justin Partyka
Justin Partyka was born in Norfolk in 1972. He is working on his first book of photographs, The East Anglians. Photographs from this long-term project were featured in the Tate Britain exhibition ‘A Picture of Britain’ in 2005.
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