Peter Adams Collection

P PAD

1982-2002

Peter Adams began his career as a trainee photographer for Farmer's Weekly in 1960. He worked for the magazine for twenty years during which time he won the IPC Business Press Photo of the Year Award in 1978. in 1980 he joined a group of local papers whilst keeping his interest in agriculture by freelancing with Big Farm Weekly. After two years working with local press he began working as a freelance photographer full time. During this period Adams worked for various agricultural magazines and organisations including Big Farm Weekly, Farmer's Weekly, National Farmers' Union and the Meat and Livestock Commission. In 1982, weekly newspaper Farming News began and Peter Adams was asked to work on the pilot issue to be launched in January 1983. Accepting the job he went on to work for them for the next ten years. Farming News dealt with current issues facing the farming community as well as reporting on agricultural shows and fairs such as the Royal Agircultural Sociey of England's annual Royal Show. During his time with the newspaper he won the Guild of Agricultural Journalists' photography competition. In 1993 Peter Adams went back to freelance work taking photographs for many of the same organisations. He is now semi-retired [2011].

The collection contains black and white negatives and contact prints, and colour negatives and prints. The collection largely represents his work as a photographer for Farming News as well as freelance work, particularly from 1993.

6 linear metres

fonds

Agriculture, Photographs

The original arrangement has been retained where possible P PAD A PH1 BLACK AND WHITE NEGATIVES P PAD A PH2 BLACK AND WHITE CONTACT PRINTS P PAD B PH1 COLOUR NEGATIVES P PAD B PH2 COLOUR PRINTS