Black and white contact print of 'Diary' photographs, Kent & East Sussex and jeep test drive

P PAD A PH2/1115

26 Feb 1986

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].

Photographs of loading muck into the spreader and muck spreading at John Marshall's farm, Lamberhurst; injecting combined Clostridial vaccine into ewes due to lamb in March at Witherenden Farm, Stonegate. Also photographs of a Nissan jeep test drive.

1 contact print; 28 images

Lamberhurst, Stonegate, Muck Spreading, Vaccination, Sheep, Vehicles