IMAGE: Gunnie Moberg Aerial photograph, Orkney circa 1979
The Gunnie Moberg Archive sits in the wider photographic collections of the Orkney Library and Archive. One of the photographers that inhabits that space with Gunnie is Tom Kent. Kent and Moberg might not share time but they certainly share place. Both artists document their vision of Orkney culture, the places, faces and happenings. More on Tom Kent here. Here both have photographed the Orkney landscape at harvest time and if you listen you can hear these images speaking to each other across time.
Tom Kent, Dale Farm, Harray, Orkney, Winners of the 1930 Stack competition TK1383
Wow, the Dale stacks are amazing! Testament to a lost art and skill. A piece of landscape art if I ever saw one. Perversely, they remind me of the plywood fire shelter built last year on Papay during the Gyro Nights festival. http://shjworks.dk/projects/2014/3/11/fire-shelter-papay-2014.html . Not something to mix with straw…..Cheers, Dan