{"id":627143,"date":"2026-10-11T07:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T07:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/627143\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T07:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T07:52:08","slug":"animals-and-their-people-country-shows-across-the-uk-in-pictures-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/627143\/","title":{"rendered":"Animals and their people: country shows across the UK \u2013 in pictures | Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photographer Irina Werning, who grew up in rural Argentina surrounded by animals, has spent the summer photographing animals and their people at county and agricultural shows across the UK, from Essex and Kent to Surrey, Gloucestershire and Buckinghamshire, a project she began in Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018As animals become less visible in the countryside, I\u2019ve turned to agricultural shows \u2013 places where people still gather to see and celebrate them. For the past four years, I\u2019ve photographed these fairs in Argentina and the UK, exploring our changing relationship with animals. I see them as a kind of Darwinian theatre, looking for moments when humans and animals unexpectedly mirror each other\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photographer Irina Werning, who grew up in rural Argentina surrounded by animals, has spent the summer photographing animals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-627143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}