Venetia dearden biography sample

          Venetia Dearden.

          As a child, she wanted to be a writer....

          Documenting alternative ways of life in the British countryside

          I grew up in Somerset. It’s where my family are. I came to London in 1999 to study photojournalism and was immediately propelled into that world – travelling a huge amount, mostly in Africa – but after about four years I came back to Somerset because I realised I really wanted to discover my own backyard.

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          5. There was never really a plan. It was simply my relief from London and from travelling.

          There was a site next to my parents’ house where lots of different people had bought plots of land and were building low-impact dwellings.

          It became very much a guinea pig for other sites in the UK, changing the way that people could live in the countryside, and a lot of people had very strong opinions about that.

          So I went to live on that site for a month and I photographed the residents to show the people in my parents’ village that these people were living in exactly the same way.

          Something I was trying to do, even then, was