Gomma Photography Grant 2024
Kolostrum
Photographer
Jusseret Lionel
Kolostrum
21 Jan, 2025
"Kolostrum tells the story of the daily lives of dairy cow farming families in the north of France, whose farming systems stand somewhere between small autonomous farms and large agri-businesses. The series is based on a modern sociological observation: the current lack of interest in farming as a profession. Only one farm in four is taken over today. In France, 55% of farmers are at least 50 years old, and in the next 5 to 10 years, half of them will be retiring. Only one in five is under 40, and one in three of them is a woman. But beyond the moribund observations and the often unjustified preconceptions that our asceptised society unfairly casts on the profession, Kolostrum is a celebration of life, death and matter, of which the farmer is the humble craftsman."
About the photographer
Jusseret Lionel
"Born in Belgium in 1989, Lionel Jusseret is a documentary photographer. In the search for unpredictable images, Jusseret works in the intimacy of his subject. The approach is anthropological. After eight years of immersion close of children with autism, he finished his first series Kinderszenen and published it at Loco edition in 2020. Between 2018 and 2020, he works in a retirement home to get closer to elderly people and create the new serie Les Impatientes also publish at Loco editions in 2022. This year, he is collaborating with several peasant families in order to draw a portrait of the new generation of farmers in France. This new documentary is initially part of the artist residency “le champs des impossibles” in the Perche region in Normandy. Lionel Jusseret currently lives in Bruxelles."
