Sara Boldú Botam, RTVE director, wanted to see what agriculture looked like with a top-down shot, the cinematographic shot in which the optical axis is perpendicular to the ground. She tried it and began to wander around her region, Les Garrigues. She is from Les Borges Blanques.
One of the first photos he took, in 2018, was of a farmer from Els Omellons, who, as he does with all the farmers he photographs, asked permission to photograph him. He was plowing. When she raised her drone, Sara says that she hallucinated: “Working it made a kind of braid, It looked like a painting. “That man was drawing on the floor.”
That photo was the beginning of his project Artistes amb tractor (Artists with a tractor), in which he sees and shows male and female farmers, as architects of the landscape, artists of works to photograph.
The farmers, to whom he gives the photos, are also amazed when they see the images. Many have them as a profile photo on their WhatsApp account. She believes they also take pride in what they do.
Sara doesn't teach heaven. His intention is to photograph pieces of land and show them on his website (with which he won the Pica d'Estats International Tourist Prize in 2020) and also show them in a traveling exhibition that usually includes farms and farmers from the town that hosts them in those days. the sample.
The exhibition began its tour in 2019 at the Center de l'Oli de la Granadella (Lleida), has passed through some forty towns and until May 5 is installed at the Museu Molí de les Tres Eres in Cambrils (Tarragona).
Sara participates, with the Government Delegation of Lleida, in the project 'Lleida, land of transformative women' to give visibility to women who update the vision of the rural world in the economy, in society, in art, in technology, in the environment, in technology or in agriculture.
For her, being part of this group, in which about 150 women participate, “has been a way to connect with others who are in the territory doing super interesting things in different areas. “This project has woven a network of a lot of women who do interesting things that we were there and we didn't know.”
From a peasant family, for her project Sara has spent hours in the field watching how male and female farmers picked olives, tilled, sowed, reaped, pruned or picked fruit.
“The farmers _he says_ see it as normal because they do it every day and those who live in the city don't see it because it is too far away. It has a lot of value, without agriculture what would we eat? And who would take care of the territory?
He has had a good time exploring fields with the drone that he usually always carries in his bag and asking some farmers why they work in the fields to include their answers on his website. Photographing the countryside is happy. Her photos convey her passion for the land and that of the tractor-riding artists she photographs.
