Picture-a-Farmer: Farmer Photobooth

Try on different (often stereotypical) ideas of food providers, and explore some of the issues related to these stereotypes in the photo booth. Bat of Minerva food videos will play in relation to what’s happening in the photobooth, and will provide opportunities for participants to enter their explorations into the Field Guide to Food Systems.

Many peoples’ perceptions of farmers are derived from second hand sources such as newspapers, advertisements, television, and film. This detachment from farming results in a wide range of perceptions of who our food producers are. These images are not idle or politically neutral, but rather shape the development of food and farming futures. We seek to capture these diverse images of farmers and to understand their construction.

Using a photobooth with props constructed from social science research on social perceptions of food and farming, we create spaces for people to express and explore their imagination of farmers—and to engage with others portrayals to create a richer and more substantiated way to come to understand what hats farmers wear.

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