An outdoor exhibition celebrating hill farming, which is on display adjacent to the Langdon Beck Hotel in Upper Teesdale.

Photographer Joanne Coates spent a year documenting the farming year in Upper Teesdale as part of the Tees-Swale: naturally connected programme being delivered by the North Pennines AONB Partnership and the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority.

For this unique insight into the working life of hill farmers, tenant farmers Paul and Jen Johnson welcomed Joanne Coates to their Upper Teesdale farm, Herdship, on the Raby Estate. The resulting photographs will be exhibited a short distance down the dale in the field at the Langdon Beck Hotel, from Wednesday 10 June to Sunday 4 June. Entry is free and there is parking at the hotel.

Twenty images of life, work, and the natural year at Herdship will be on display, set into the landscape high in the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The large format images have been mounted on posts which will be repurposed for tree guards at the end of the exhibition.