Who knew there were so many flavors of sheep!? From the UK Telegraph:


It wasn't an easy project. Paul Farnham, a fashion photographer who trained with Annie Liebowitz, attended mucky agricultural shows to get his ovine portraits. Often his car got stuck in muddy fields and had to be hauled out by labouring tractors. His studio was a construction of hay-bales. His backdrop, rolled cloth.

It was, he says, nothing like his normal fashion shoots. But there, again, in some ways, it was precisely the same. "The majority were fine, they would turn up and walk straight on to the backdrop," Farnham says. "But some were crazy. Every time you moved away they would buck and run. It was a bit like shooting models, really." He's proud of the new perspective that emerged from these trials, admitting: "For me, most of these shots deserve to be in frames on people's walls." And if you consider the wider story of his subject, you might agree.

There are more than 1.2 billion sheep on earth, one for every six humans, if we wanted to share.


Here are some of the sheep models (they love diet coke and cigarettes):


Border Leicester

Kerry Hill