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Photographer Claudia Caporn celebrates female farmers and women in agriculture with ‘educational’ portrait series
Western Australian photographer Claudia Caporn says the stereotype of a farmer in Australia is a “younger, in shape, male” — and it can be one thing she wants to modify. Growing up in the Wheatbelt location, she has been surrounded by woman farmers all her lifetime. Presently travelling around Western Australia, Ms Caporn hopes to use her pictures to change the confront of agriculture. “I am just continuing to travel around with my camera, trying to get a picture of women of all ages that is reliable and genuine, and kind of worries the concept of the Aussie farmer being a wholesome, youthful, suit male in an Akubra hat,” Ms…