Organic Pig Farming, Elgin
About this artwork
Here, Franklin has photographed an organic pig farm in the North East of Scotland. With her pink fleshy skin, oversized ears and twitchy snout the pig in the foreground is the main focal point within the desolate, muddy landscape. It is part of a series of photographs commissioned by the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in 2007 to capture the diversity of Scottish farming, ranging from large managed estates to family allotments. The photographer, Stuart Franklin, traced the environmental damage caused by intensive forestry in the Trossachs and the impact of mobile phone masts on the landscape near Montrose.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Stuart Franklin (born 1956)
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title:Organic Pig Farming, Elgin
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date created:2008
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materials:Colour inkjet print
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measurements:77.00 cm x 112.00 cm
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credit line:Commissioned 2007
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accession number:PGP 755.14
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Stuart Franklin
Stuart Franklin
Stuart Franklin is perhaps best known for taking one of the most iconic images of the twentieth century - a student defying a row of tanks in Tiananmen Square, for which he won a World Press Award. Franklin studied photography and film at West Surrey College of Art and Design, graduating in 1979....