Rural Images Discovered Project
The Rural Images Discovered project will catalogue and digitise 15 000 images from two significant photographer collections and photographic press archives from the Museum of English Rural Life. For the first time an accessible online resource will be available for a photographic record covering more than 70 years of change in English farming and the countryside. 
The images will be catalogued and digitised and made be available via the Museum of English Rural Life's online database
Photographic press archives
Selected images will be digitised from the photographic press collections of the
Photographer collections
The project will focus on two collections of leading agricultural photo journalists: John Tarlton and Peter Adams. Their photographs were published in the farming press throughout their careers which span the period 1940-2002.
- John Tarlton photographed many aspects of the countryside including hunting, shooting, fishing and the landscape 1940-1980. His work appeared in leading countryside magazines, including the Field, Shooting Times, Farmers Weekly and Country Life.
- Peter Adams worked at Farmers Weekly 1960-1980. He won IPC Business Press Photo of the Year in 1978 and voted the runner up in 1979. He worked for Farming News 1982-1993 with black and white photography, 1993-2002 he was a freelance photographer and his colour photographs featured in agricultural publications including Farmers Weekly, Big Farm Weekly, Crops, British Dairying, Grower and the National Farmers Union.
Funding
The project has generously been funded by the Foyle Foundation