In the course of the year 2020, I started a documentary work on peasant agriculture.
The goal of this project was to draw up a portrait of farmers, their job and the way they live it.
While 50% of the farmers in activity are about to retire in the next ten years, the profession has difficulty in attracting vocations and suffers from a degraded image. I wanted to meet some who have chosen to produce differently based on the principles of peasant agriculture (Working with nature / Autonomy / Transferability / Local development / Distribution / Quality).
Farms on a human scale, a production respectful of the environment and of those who make it, working hours chosen and not suffered... So many ways to re-invent an agricultural model that too often crushes those who feed us.
Julien Berlie, farmer-baker, prepares dough pieces in his bakery
Sarzeau, France - 2020
Julien Berlie, farmer-baker, prepares dough pieces in his bakery
Sarzeau, France - 2020
A batch of bread cooling
Sarzeau, France - 2020
Julien prepares the orders of bread that he will distribute in direct sale and in a store of producers
Sarzeau, France - 2020
Séverine Hervé, market gardener, harvesting green beans
Séné, France - 2020
Harvesting green beans
Séné, France - 2020
Séverine harvests potatoes with one of her partners and their employees
Séné, France - 2020
Séverine stands in the middle of a row
Séné, France - 2020
Julien Brothier, ewe breeder, takes care of Isidore, a highland steer that maintains one of his pastures
La Vraie Croix, France - 2020
Julien's sheep in one of their pens
La Vraie Croix, France - 2020
One of Julien's sons bottle-feeds a lamb
La Vraie Croix, France - 2020
Julien milks his sheep
La Vraie Croix, France - 2020
Jean-Noël and Tifenn Yvon, oyster farmers, on their barge in the ria of Etel
Locoal-Mendon, France - 2020
Jean-Noël arranges oyster bags on lines
Locoal-Mendon, France - 2020
Tifenn turns over oyster bags
Locoal-Mendon, France - 2020
Tifenn turns over oyster bags.
Locoal-Mendon, France - 2020
Mathilde Hors, cheese maker and her son Jolan
Molac, France - 2020
Preparation of the cheese base
Molac, France - 2020
Mathilde and Jolan return cheese during maturation
Molac, France - 2020
A sheep's tome in a maturing cellar
Molac, France - 2020
Pierre-Yves Floch, pig farmer
Muzillac, France - 2020
A sow and her piglets
Muzillac, France - 2020
A panel with a drawing of a pig
Muzillac, France - 2020
A group of piglets waiting to be fed
Muzillac, France - 2020