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The East Anglians

  • Photo-1 Reed Cutter, Suffolk, 2004
  • Photo-2 Farmhouse Interior, Norfolk, 2006
  • Photo-3 Eric Wortley, Norfolk, 2005
  • Photo-4 Farmyard Scene, Norfolk, 2005
  • Photo-5 Inside a Farm Workshop, Norfolk, 2004
  • Photo-6 Sugar Beet Harvest, Norfolk, 2004
  • Photo-7 Farmyard Scene, Norfolk, 2006
  • Photo-8 Burning Farm Rubbish, Norfolk, 2004
  • Photo-9 Eel Catcher, Cambridgeshire, 2002
  • Photo-10 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.