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Playing with Hasselblads and Quadra kits. AKA the ‘Songbook Setup’.  

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New work in progress :)

During the 1840’s, Cornwall’s booming mining industry began to crumble. As Cornish mining became less profitable, many mines closed down, forcing workers to find employment elsewhere. With little opportunity now in Cornwall, miners started taking their expertise in hard rock mining overseas. From North America to South Australia, the Cornish started migrating to countries rich with new opportunity. By the turn of the 20th century more than 250,000 people had left Cornwall during what was called ‘The Great Migration’, in search of work and a better life for their families. Subsequently, Cornish culture has been reinvented in the United States. This series highlights the influences generations of Cornish men and women have had on North America, through present day Cornish American descendents of ‘Great Migration’ expats, in the mining regions of Michigan and Wisconsin.

I made it mom.

Lawrence and Titan. Gweek, Cornwall.

A couple more possible images for the first part of my Cornish Americans story. Fowey, Cornwall.

Around 20% of the Cornish male population migrated abroad from ports such as Fowey, Padstow and Looe. Many were forced to leave family and loved ones behind in search of better wages and greater opportunities. In total, the county lost over a quarter of a million people between 1841 and 1901. 

Here a few images from my first shoot at South Crofty mine, Pool. October 2013.

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