What It’s Like to Be a Tobacco Farmer: Photos From Around the World

 

(Slate) In the late 1990s, as Sarah Hazlegrove’s family stopped growing tobacco for the first time in 200 years, her immediate reaction was to start photographing the Virginia family farm she knew and loved. Though Forkland Farm’s history with tobacco had special resonance for her, she knew its departure from the cash crop wasn’t a unique phenomenon and that many family tobacco operations around the world were slipping away as commercial enterprises increasingly dominated.
In the years since, she’s visited family farms throughout the United States, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Malawi, Indonesia, and Cuba to document the people who still grow the plant the way she knew growing up. Continued