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June 9, 2014

Caro Telfer: Australian Farm Albums

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As Caro Telfer, Photographer I have been photographing farming families for many years, as part of my family portrait business.

I realised that I wanted to document more than just the people on the farm when I was photographing producer stories for Meat and Livestock Australia. I enjoyed photographing farmers working with their livestock in the yards or paddocks.

When my friend’s family made the tough decision to sell their farm I went and photographed the farm to make a farm album for the family before they left. Then I decided our own family should have one!

I wished that I had something similar to show my kids so they could see what I did on the farm with their grandfather before I was married. We have a bit of old video footage somewhere, but not an album of photos that tells the whole story.

I grew up with my three sisters on a farm in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. After dropping out of university when I turned 21 I went home to the family farm and farmed with my father for six years. I learnt a lot about machinery and enjoyed driving the tractor and the harvester. I remember we had one very dry year when I spent a lot of time in the old International truck carting water for livestock. I had my own sheep dog, and we spent hours droving sheep and working in the sheep yards. At shearing time I would roustabout until I got my owner-classer certificate and then I could class the wool.

Eventually the farm was sold and I moved to a tourist town where I worked at an art gallery for a short time before I met my husband and moved to his farm near Darkan, on the edge of the Wheatbelt. It was strange becoming a farmer’s wife instead of a farmer. I still help out on the farm but my main focus for the last twenty years has been my children, and now my photography business.

Caro Telfer: Australian Farm Albums

As an accredited professional photographer with the Australian Institute of Professional Photography I am continually updating my knowledge and skills. 

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