20 Years of La Crueize - the beginning
La Crueize, Rochessadoule, Cevennes, Southern France
An afternoon between May 26 and June 7, 2004
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This panorama was taken during our very first stay in La Crueize in 2004 - the year the WWP project was launched.
Augustin Thyssen then had a big herd of black pigs, usually roaming freely in his generously fenced chestnut forest. They came to the meadow once a week to eat grass, but also when some of them had to be separated, as on this day.
Over the next 20 years, we visited the place regularly in spring and I took a whole series of panoramas (and countless other images) in that region (see below).
Behind the fence, my family waits for the pigs to be fed with stale baguette Augustin got for free from a supermarket. He was in his later sixties back then, and for my boys he was like a once-a-year grandfather. We always spent the rest of the year waiting impatiently for our next stay.
He is now in his late eighties and still lives alone in his stone house, but he has given up pig farming and only keeps two pigs out of sentimentality. And it's uncertain whether we'll be able to rent the other house again next year because his daughter will need it when she comes to visit him more often.
Around the Houses:
- La Crueize (by Moritz Schmidt)
- Living In (and On) the Forest
- Proudly Doing Adults Work
- Peacocks in the Afternoon
- Gîte: The living room
- Gîte: The Kitchen
On the same hill:
- The broken chapel
- The bell (of the broken chapel)
- The bell at sunset
- Forest on the Border
- Sunset on a set mountain
In the region:
Shot on analog film (presumable Fuji Reala) with a Canon EOS camera, scanned with a Nikon LS40 and stitched with PTGui. Post-processing in photoshop.
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