Kate Kirkwood landscape photography + Interview

Peter Eavis interviews fellow countrywoman Kate Kirkwood. www.katekirkwood.com Peter Eavis: Kate, from your photos, I am pretty certain that you live on a farm in northern England. Maybe tell us what the part of England you live in is like, how you came to be there, on this farm, what you do each day, and how you fit photography into your routine. Kate Kirkwood: I live on a hill farm in the Lake District in Northwest England. Hill farmers survive by raising hardy sheep, and some cattle, on fairly rough pasturage and open fells. I rent the farmhouse from the National Trust, and my neighbour farmers rent the land. So I have the pleasure of living on a farm, and sharing the life of it, without the responsibilities. I came to the Lake District with my family twenty years ago, completely by accident. Having moved to London from abroad, we were struggling to find somewhere to rent and a woman we'd met in Greenwich Park exercising her retired sheepdogs said, 'Why don't you rent my farmhouse in the Lake District [...]