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Weatherbury Farm A Cow named Mouse, a Pig named Gromit and Other Friends

Author / Artist – Judy Brown

80 Pages

$35

 

About WEATHERBURY FARM

Growing up in a small town in Texas, I dreamed of living on a farm, surrounded by animals and fields. Many decades and changes later, I discovered that my fantasy farm was real and was just up the road from my home in the western suburbs of Boston. When I saw the rolling fields, the weathered red barns and all the chickens, pigs, cows and llamas, I was very excited and eager to capture their images.

Visiting the farm many times led to strong attachments with the animals, and I have spent many happy hours in their company. I concentrated on fine details often missed or dismissed. I found beauty in dirty faces, drooling lips and upturned snouts. My goal was to capture their unique personalities and human-like qualities—their curiosity, their sense of humor, their wish for affection, and their irrepressible appetites. The five years I have spent observing and interacting with these subjects have enriched my understanding of farm animals and heightened my awareness of the cruelty with which they are treated by the food industry. My goal for the future is that sharing these portraits with the world will lead to more respect for farm animals as intelligent, sentient beings and lead to more humane treatment of these beautiful creatures.

About Judy Brown –

Judy Brown follows a career as Professor of Physics at Wellesley College and Research Scientist at the MIT Media Lab by combining her long-time passions for animals and photography. She is particularly attracted to animal subjects – fur, hair, and feathers -for their subtle textures (often hidden from the naked eye) and for their beauty of form. She loves spending time with farm animals, getting to know their individual behavioral quirks. Her “Elliott” portfolio of a spirited pony in his stall has been given a number of solo shows including two in Griffin Museum of Photography satellite galleries and an MIT Architecture Department Tele-exhibit. Several images from the portfolio “Far from the Madding Crowd” were shown in a two person show at the Griffin Museum Satellite gallery, SOWA, Boston in the spring of 2017. Selections from her “Antique Skin”, “Elliott”, “Weatherbury Farm” portfolios and others have been selected for over two dozen juried exhibitions including by Texas Photographic Society, Photoplace, Newburyport Art Association, SE Center for Photography, A Smith Gallery, and others . She is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and a 2019 Critical Mass 200 Finalist.