Simultaneously to my Gaia project, I have been working on one about community. I originally wanted to do a Donovan Wylie style project on travellers and gypsies, but they were against me photographing them unless I was going to live with them for a while. I would love to do that one day but I had a deadline for this project and there is no way I would be able to complete it in time. I made the decision to go in a completely different direction and photograph the Women's Institute. I was interested in whether they would live up to the stereotype of women in their late 70's and 80's drinking tea, eating cake and knitting tea cozies. I also thought they would be more cooperative and easier to photograph. I wasted quite a lot of time waiting for the Dorset Federation to get back to me about which meetings I could attend, so just decided to turn up to a few. This week I went to Throop and Highcliffe.
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