Photographer's project explores the lives of tobacco farmers

 

(roanoke.com) For more than two years, Roanoker Sarah Hazlegrove has been globe-hopping, landing in Brazil, Malawi and Indonesia so she could visit each country’s tobacco farms with her camera and bring back images that would show what life was like for these farmers.
“I’ve never won anything in my life, but I feel like with this project, I’ve been so lucky,” Hazlegrove said.
The project is “Tobacco People,” a documentary photo book that will be published online and is sponsored by Philip Morris International and Universal Leaf Tobacco Co.
A lifelong artist, Hazlegrove, 54, comes from a family of artists and farmers. Continued