PHOTOGRAPHER Allan Wright is intent on capturing a lost army; an army that is, of largely abandoned vintage tractors.
Roaming Scotland’s coastal and rural landscape with lens at the ready, Wright has gone on an unusual journey of discovery that reflects on the role of the tractor and on how it has shaped Scotland’s agricultural history, heritage and landscape. With contributions from award winning Scottish poet George Gunn and retired farmer and tractor enthusiast Ayrshireman Russell McNab – he has produced a new book, 'Vintage Tractors', that celebrates the role of the tractor in ‘making life possible’.
Mr Wright said: “My principle occupation is as a landscape photographer, but during my working travels I unwittingly developed a particularly sharp eye for a tractor, abandoned or partially obscured at the back of a barn or in the far distant corner of a field. I felt a strange magnetic draw each time I encountered one of these ‘noble beasts’."
Scottish poet, George Gunn, said: "Through tractors, life was made possible as was belief that these hard acres could provide. As with people, the older tractors get the more interesting they become”
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